Internal variety in the use of Slovene general extenders in different spoken discourse settings

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darinka Verdonik
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
High Variability ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Slovene Language ◽  
Spoken Interaction

In the present paper, we investigate a group of markers in spoken interaction, commonly termed general extenders (GEs). We compare their usage in different discourse settings within the reference speech corpus of the Slovene language GOS. The results show that there is a high variability of GE form, but that most forms are rarely used. GEs are generally less frequent in public and formal settings, such as classes and radio and television informative broadcasts, and more frequent in private settings. Substantial differences are found not only between the two groups of GEs, adjunctive and disjunctive, but also between particular GE expressions. We argue that mere qualitative analysis of pragmatic expressions such as GEs is not sufficient for reliable conclusions, and that quantitative corpus analysis can provide additional insights into GE functions, especially considering the differences between the two groups of GEs, adjunctives and disjunctives, and between particular GE expressions.

scholarly journals Exploring the Discursive Construction of Obedience: An Analysis of Application Letters for the Position of Executioner in Hitler’s Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leisser ◽  
Katie Bray ◽  
Anaruth Hernández ◽  
Doha Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
National Socialist State ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractThis article presents an empirical investigation into the construction of obedience in letters of applications mailed to National Socialist authorities for the position of executioner between the years 1933 and 1945. To this end, a corpus of 178 letters of application was compiled, annotated, and analyzed using the corpus analysis toolkits Antconc and Lancsbox. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the corpus was conducted. The findings were related to and interpreted from the perspectives of applied legal linguistics, stylistics, and legal history. The project aims to explore the construction of a shared discourse of obedience and how this discourse is operative in the letters of application. Drawing on an explorative interdisciplinary framework, this project seeks to answer the following research questions: Is obedience a construct in applicants’ letters of motivation? Which linguistic devices and discursive strategies are used by the executioners to express submission to officials of the National Socialist state? Are there variants of the construction of submission by applicants?

Uses and functions of the Romanian marker dar and its English equivalent but in professional spoken interaction. A contrastive corpus analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Cristina STAN
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Requirements ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
English Equivalent ◽  
The Way

"Based on two comparable corpora of professional spoken interaction CIVMP2 and ITICMC3 and on the idea that in the past hundred years, the way in which researchers conceived communication has changed, this paper analyzes the ability of speakers to control their behavior, actions and attitudes in the process of communication in the workplace, in an attempt to demonstrate that language is an instrument of doing things. Moreover, based on Fraser's classification (1996), this paper also analyzes two contrastive markers, but and dar, trying to show that they may be seen as equivalent. Following Schiffrin (1987), I began my inquiry by paying attention to their distribution in discourse. Thus, in the corpora I have analyzed, but and its Romanian equivalent dar have the following functions: to express a contrastive value, to continue an idea, to signal the personal correction of the speaker, to insert an objection or a reaction to the previous speech act, to emphasize a discursive idea, an obligation etc. In addition, according to the analysis on the corpora, it could be said that speakers seem to constantly adapt to the conditions imposed by the interactional, social, ideological and cultural requirements of the context, as shown by Măda (2009)."

Gender differences in spoken interaction in same sex dyadic conversations in Australian English

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 147-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Thwaite
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Australian English ◽  
Spoken Interaction

Abstract This paper is a quantitative study of gender differences in a corpus of spontaneous spoken discourse of approximately 2000 clauses. Subjects were same sex pairs of speakers of Australian English, from a sample that was homogeneous in all respects except gender. Grammatical analyses derive from the work of Halliday, with conversational analyses developed by Berry (1981a,b,c) and Martin (1992). Results show that statistically significant gender differences occurred in the phonological, lexicogrammatical and semantic strata of the language. A Systemic Functional model was found to be most useful in capturing these differences, and in relating them in a holistic picture of this type of language variation.

Using key part-of-speech analysis to examine spoken discourse by Taiwanese EFL learners

ReCALL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Liang Lin
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Spoken Interaction

AbstractThis study reports on a corpus analysis of samples of spoken discourse between a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, with the aim of exploring the statistically significant differences in the use of grammatical categories between the two groups of participants. The key word method extended to a part-of-speech level using the web-based corpus analytical tool, Wmatrix, highlights those linguistic domains which deserve particular attention. Specifically, it reveals the lexical and grammatical categories that occur unusually frequently or unusually infrequently in the English learners’ discourse when compared with the language used by the native speakers of English in the sample. The research findings delineate the pedagogical merit of key domain analysis and thus help to inform English as a foreign language teachers and materials developers in the design of courses emphasising spoken interaction.

scholarly journals Not a study of English! A corpus analysis of discourse features in spoken Burmese

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
San San Hnin Tun
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
One To One ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Discourse Functions

This paper is part of a larger research project on the ‘Comparative analysis of discourse markers in Burmese and in English’, and the product of my attempt to identify so-called particles in Burmese in terms of their discourse functions. Particles are bound morphemes, many of which do not have one-to-one equivalents in English. In traditional grammars, these lexical items are usually described in terms of their syntactic distribution: these studies present different kinds of sentential environments, but often fall short of a systematic generalization describing their semantic or pragmatic properties. A corpus-based study of spoken Burmese in different genres, within the framework of Discourse Analysis, suggests that particles often have prominent discourse functions, and many are in fact used primarily for their discourse functions in natural spoken discourse, in which propositional meaning remains the same with or without the particles.

General extenders and discourse variation

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jūratė Ruzaitė
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Structural Type ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Structural Types ◽  
Reference Corpus ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
Discourse Variation

Abstract The present study accounts for the use of general extenders (GEs) in spoken and written registers. The repertoire and usage of GEs is analysed in Lithuanian by focusing on their distribution across different registers, their structural properties, and discourse-pragmatic functions. The study is based on a reference corpus of Lithuanian, which includes four subcorpora of written discourse and a subcorpus of spoken discourse. The findings indicate that there are some significant cross-generic differences in GE frequency, but most frequently GEs in Lithuanian are used in written academic discourse. With regard to the structural types of GEs, adjunctives are considerably more frequent than disjunctives. GE structure allows for a large degree of variation, and in spoken interaction GEs can include deictic elements. Concerning discourse-pragmatic functions, GEs are predominantly used to serve textual and interpersonal functions, which appear to be strongly related to the structural type of the GE and discourse settings.

Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and non-subjectivity across spoken language genres

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara De Cock
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Usage Pattern ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Informal Conversation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Relationship

Various authors have pointed out a relationship between (inter)subjectivity and spoken language. This article looks into the relationship between subjectivity, intersubjectivity, non-subjectivity and spoken discourse genres in a more detailed way. On the basis of a quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis of informal conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates, this article offers a detailed operationalization of the concepts of subjectivity, intersubjectivity and non-subjectivity, and shows that they may be expressed not only in person deixis (which is typically associated with these phenomena) but also in impersonal strategies. On the other hand, the analysis of three spoken discourse genres shows that these concepts contribute to establishing a more detailed genre typology. Moreover, they allow for describing more accurately the usage pattern of specific deictic and impersonal strategies.

Korpus internetowy jako źródło informacji lingwistycznej: ograniczenia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-97
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kiklewicz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Corpus Analysis

The author shows several limitations of the corpus-based linguistic informationin syntactic studies. In the case of the most frequent phenomena, corpusanalysis is effective, but it does not always allow to document less typicalphenomena (for example, occasional and potential combinations of tokens). Oneof the author’s conclusions is that corpus analysis should be configured withintrospection and qualitative analysis.

Place assimilation across words in running speech: Corpus analysis and perception

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2307-2322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Zimmerer ◽  
Henning Reetz ◽  
Aditi Lahiri
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Place Assimilation
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