Register and Discourse Through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria.

Series:

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; v.127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Register (Linguistics).

Corpora (Linguistics).

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field's most dynamic areas.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Introduction

Funding

References

Chapter 1 A study of the recent evolution of swearing in British teen talk

1. Introduction

2. Swearing: Definition, variables, and types

3. Previous studies

4. Objectives and research hypotheses

5. Data and methodology

6. Results

6.1 General frequency of the swear words analysed

6.2 General frequency of the slurs studied

6.3 A close study of fuck

7. Conclusions and suggestions for further research

Acknowledgements

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 2 Investigating the role of no(t)-fragments in colloquialization

2. No(t)-fragments and colloquialization

3. Research questions

4. Data retrieval

5. Results and discussion

6. Conclusion

Chapter 3 A diachronic register approach to complex prenominal modifiers

2. Data and methodology

3. Results

3.1 Long- and short-term diachronic development and register differences

3.2 Spread of complex prenominal modifiers to comparable registers in World Englishes

4. Conclusion

Chapter 4 Studying the historical enregisterment of ain't in nineteenth-century American newspapers

2. Method

3. Enregisterment and literary dialect

4. Some characterological figures

4.1 The Yankee

4.1.1 Major Downing of the Downingsville Militia

4.1.2 Sam Slick of Slicksville

4.1.3 Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby

4.2 Our Little Newsboy

4.3 Black stereotypes

4.3.1 Free Soil Party

4.3.2 Other depictions of Black speakers

4.3.3 News from Maine

5. Conclusion

Appendices: Transcriptions of newspaper articles

Appendix I. (Figure 3) Major Downing "Pensions", Connecticut Courant 1834.

Appendix II. (Figure 4) Sam Slick "Extravagance in the United States", Barre Weekly Gazette 1838

Appendix III. (Figure 5) P. V. Nasby "Fiat Money", Georgia Weekly Telegraph 1878

Appendix IV. (Figure 6) "Our Little Newsboy", Constitution 1868

Appendix V. (Figure 7) "Free Soil Movement", Daily Evening Transcript 1848

Appendix VI. (Figure 8) "News from Maine", Cincinnati Daily Gazette 1872

Chapter 5 The function of "normal" in the U.S. COVID-19 news discourse

2. Research on pandemic discourse

3. Semantic preference and semantic prosody

4. The function of quotation marks, partial direct quotes and scare quotes

5. Data

6. Methodology

7. Findings

7.1 The occurrence of "normal"/normal in the CC and in the NOW corpus

7.2 Collocational patterns with "normal"

7.3 Colligational patterns with "normal"

7.4 Semantic preference of "normal"

7.4.1 The multiword unit * * "normal" *

7.4.2 The semantic set Definition of "normal"

7.4.3 The semantic set Degree of "normal"

7.5 Semantic prosody of "normal"

7.5.1 Expressing different degrees of (un)certainty

7.5.2 Indicating a plurality of voices

7.5.3 Expressing a negative evaluation

8. Discussion

9. Summary and conclusions

Appendix

Chapter 6 A corpus-based investigation of interruptions and humour in FOMC deliberations

2. Material and methods

3.1 Humour and laughter in FOMC meetings

3.1.1 Quantitative analysis

3.1.2 Qualitative analysis

3.2 Interruptions in FOMC meetings

3.2.1 Quantitative analysis

3.2.2 Qualitative analysis

4. Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 7 Beyond the transactional

2. Related work

2.1 Expressives in corpus linguistics

2.2 Expressives in workplace emails

3. Data and annotation

3.1 Data.

3.2 Data extraction: Identifying expressives

3.3 Challenges in defining expressives

4. Formal and functional properties of workplace expressives

4.1 Forms and frequencies

4.2 Functional categorization

4.2.1 Existing annotation schemes

4.2.2 An annotation scheme for workplace email expressives

4.2.3 Surface expressives

4.3 Overall findings

5. Positive and negative emotions

5.1 Agreement and Disagreement

5.2 Joy and Sorrow

6. Conclusions: The role of emotions in workplace emails

7. Limitations and future outlook

Chapter 8 Concealed responsibility and implicit meaning

2. Aims, research questions, and hypotheses

3. Theoretical background

3.1 Implicitness

3.2 Presupposition

3.3 Epistemic stance

4. Methodology: Corpus design and analysis

4.1 Corpus description

4.2 Annotation method and analytic procedure

5. Discussion

5.1 A general overview of the use of nonpersonal epistemic expressions functioning as presupposition triggers

5.2 Nonpersonal epistemic expressions functioning as presupposition triggers in UK conservative newspaper opinion discourse

5.3 Nonpersonal epistemic expressions functioning as presupposition triggers in UK Conservative parliamentary discourse

Chapter 9 "I'm not a scientist but I did study physics"

2. Background

2.1 Expertise and public discourses

2.2 Expertise on internet forums

2.3 Towards a lexicogrammatical perspective on expert terms

3. Material and methods

3.1 The Reddit Expertise Corpus

3.2 Retrieval and analysis of grammatical patterns

4. Results

4.1 Frequencies of expert terms

4.2 Local grammar analysis of expert and scientist

4.2.1 Local grammar analysis of expert

4.2.2 Local grammar analysis of scientist.

5. Conclusions

Chapter 10 Deconstructing economists' arguments in the twentieth century

3. Research aims

4. Data and methodology

4.1 The LexEcon corpus

4.2 Research design and method

5. Analysis and discussion

5.1 Quantitative investigation

5.2 Semantic analysis

5.3 A cross-linguistic perspective on argumentation

5.4 Qualitative analysis

6. Conclusions

Chapter 11 The verbal expression of prediction in economics

2. A conceptual and linguistic overview of economic predictions

2.1 Predictions in economics

2.2 The language of predictions

3. Studying predictions across the twentieth century: Objectives, materials, and methods

4. Cross-linguistic diachronic analysis

4.1 Modal verbs

4.2 Lexical verbs

5. Concluding remarks

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4390-5

9789027243904

OCLC:

1581933450