Local grammar approaches to speech act studies : apology in contemporary spoken British English /

"This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for investi...

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Main Author: Su, Hang (Professor) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics, volume 123
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Local grammars and speech act studies
  • A local grammar approach to speech act annotation
  • Developing local grammars of speech acts
  • A local grammar approach to identifying speech act constructions
  • A local grammar approach to diachronic speech act analysis: changing patterns of apology in contemporary spoken British English
  • A local grammar approach to contrastive speech act analysis: the impact of speaker sex and culture on apology use
  • Conclusion.