Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

The Linguistic Construction of Certainty

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvChris Fitzgerald

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Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools.Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation.Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-30
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt720 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
Antal sidor160
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032224756

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AcknowledgementsChapter One: Oral History and Corpus Linguistics1.1 Introduction1.2 Selecting an archive1.3 Corpus linguistics, historical texts and oral history1.4 The oral history interview1.5 Studies of orality in historical texts1.6 Structure of the bookChapter Two: The Bureau of Military History: themes and characteristics2.1 The creation of the Bureau of Military History2.2 The question of reliability2.3 Memory2.4 The language of the Bureau of Military History archive2.5 Autobiography and military discourse2.6 Speaking of spokenness2.7 TranscriptionChapter Three: Constructing the corpus of Irish historical narratives3.1 Introduction3.2 Representativeness and corpus size3.3 Text selection3.4 Data processing3.5 ConclusionChapter Four: General characteristics of the corpus of Irish historical narratives4.1 Introduction4.2 Investigating spokenness4.3 Characteristics of COIHN: single-word items4.4 Characteristics of COIHN: multi-word units4.5 ConclusionChapter Five: Commitment to truth: mental process verbs5.1 Introduction5.2 Truth5.3 Hedging and commitment to truth5.4 Epistemic modality and evidentiality5.5 Mental process verbs and commitment to truth5.6 ConclusionChapter Six: Commitment to truth: expectation markers6.1 Introduction6.2 Adverbs of certainty and actuality6.3 ConclusionChapter Seven: Bringing together corpus linguistics and oral history7.1 Introduction7.2 Corpus linguistics and oral history archives7.3 Considering context7.4 Final reflectionAppendicesIndex