1st Edition

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics A guide for research

By Christoph Rühlemann Copyright 2019
220 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics, this book: • covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts, deixis, pragmatic markers, evaluation, conversational... Read more

Chapter 1: CL and pragmatics—an introduction

Chapter 2: CL and speech acts

Chapter 3: CL and deixis

Chapter 4: CL and pragmatic markers

Chapter 5: CL and evaluation 

Chapter 6: CL and conversational structure

Chapter 7: CL and multimodality 

Chapter 8: Concluding remarks

Biography

Christoph Rühlemann lectures in the Department of English and American Studies at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.