Speech Acts in Corpus Pragmatics: A Quantitative Contrastive Study of Directives in Spontaneous and Elicited Discourse
Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › begutachtet
Standard
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. Hrsg. / Jesús Romero-Trillo. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2015. S. 7-37.
Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › begutachtet
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - CHAP
T1 - Speech Acts in Corpus Pragmatics
T2 - A Quantitative Contrastive Study of Directives in Spontaneous and Elicited Discourse
AU - Flöck, Ilka
AU - Geluykens, Ronald
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This study compares directives in three different language corpora collected under different conditions: (1) spontaneous spoken data (taken from the British component of the International Corpus of English); (2) spontaneous written data (viz. business letters), and (3) elicited written data (collected through Discourse Completion Tasks). It is shown that there are significant differences between spontaneous and elicited data sets as well as between spoken and written natural data. These differences occur both in the so-called directive head act as well as in the modification strategies accompanying the head act (downgrading and upgrading), resulting in various levels of directness in the realization of directives in all three data sets. These results show the importance of quantitative comparative research not just across data collection methods, but also across discourse genres, based on corpora of authentic speech.
AB - This study compares directives in three different language corpora collected under different conditions: (1) spontaneous spoken data (taken from the British component of the International Corpus of English); (2) spontaneous written data (viz. business letters), and (3) elicited written data (collected through Discourse Completion Tasks). It is shown that there are significant differences between spontaneous and elicited data sets as well as between spoken and written natural data. These differences occur both in the so-called directive head act as well as in the modification strategies accompanying the head act (downgrading and upgrading), resulting in various levels of directness in the realization of directives in all three data sets. These results show the importance of quantitative comparative research not just across data collection methods, but also across discourse genres, based on corpora of authentic speech.
KW - Literature studies
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_2
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-319-17947-6
SP - 7
EP - 37
BT - Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015
A2 - Romero-Trillo, Jesús
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
ER -