Conversation in Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9713-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Corpus and Discourse

Conversation in Context examines real-life speech data from the British National Corpus to show how language is used in natural conversation. The monograph describes the composition, annotation and transcription of the corpus, as well as providing a discussion of the methodology used in corpus analysis.

Conversation in Context examines real-life speech data from the British National Corpus to show how language is used in natural conversation. The monograph describes the composition, annotation and transcription of the corpus, as well as providing a discussion of the methodology used in corpus analysis. The book uses a situational framework for conversation and argues that conversation is adapted to constraints set by the situation and to speaker needs arising from these constraints. Such a contextual view reveals a greater complexity to conversation construction than could have been anticipated without the use of corpus-based methods.

This book will be of interest to academics researching corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruehlemann, Christoph

Ruhlemann, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Background: Conversation, grammar and corpora
2. Data and methods
3. A situational framework for conversation
4. Shared-context phenomena
5. Co-construction phenomena
6. Discourse managem

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Christoph Rühlemann has a PhD in English Linguistics from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and is an English and German teacher.