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30 - Corpus Pragmatics

from Part III - Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2021

By
Svenja Adolphs  and
Yaoyao Chen
Edited by
Michael Haugh ,
Dániel Z. Kádár  and
Marina Terkourafi
Michael Haugh
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Dániel Z. Kádár
Affiliation:
Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Marina Terkourafi
Affiliation:
Leiden University
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Summary

Corpus pragmatics is an emerging area of research with a growing number of specialist publications. Research in corpus pragmatics draws on empirical language samples captured in language corpora to explore a wide variety of key topics in pragmatics, such as discourse markers, speech acts and (im)politeness. However, the majority of research to date in corpus pragmatics is based on textual (transcribed) renderings of spoken discourse, and there is a notable lack of corpus pragmatic studies that also adopt a multimodal approach, investigating the potential contribution of multiple modes (including speech, gestures and facial expressions) to utterance functions. The current chapter highlights the affordances of using a multimodal corpus pragmatic approach in exploring the role of speech and gesture in meaning making. We illustrate this approach with the example of speech-gesture functional profiles arising from a multimodal analysis of multiword expressions (e.g. ‘do you know/see what I mean’). The chapter provides an overview of key corpus methods that have been used in sociopragmatic research and pragmatic research more generally before presenting our multimodal corpus pragmatic research on ‘do you know/see what I mean’.

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corpus linguisticscorpus pragmaticsspoken corporamultimodalitygesture
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 639 - 662
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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