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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2025.
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| 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.