1st Edition
Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies The Linguistic Construction of Certainty
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Oral History and Corpus Linguistics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Selecting an archive
1.3 Corpus linguistics, historical texts and oral history
1.4 The oral history interview
1.5 Studies of orality in historical texts
1.6 Structure of the book
Chapter Two: The Bureau of Military History: themes and characteristics
2.1 The creation of the Bureau of Military History
2.2 The question of reliability
2.3 Memory
2.4 The language of the Bureau of Military History archive
2.5 Autobiography and military discourse
2.6 Speaking of spokenness
2.7 Transcription
Chapter Three: Constructing the corpus of Irish historical narratives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Representativeness and corpus size
3.3 Text selection
3.4 Data processing
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter Four: General characteristics of the corpus of Irish historical narratives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Investigating spokenness
4.3 Characteristics of COIHN: single-word items
4.4 Characteristics of COIHN: multi-word units
4.5 Conclusion
Chapter Five: Commitment to truth: mental process verbs
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Truth
5.3 Hedging and commitment to truth
5.4 Epistemic modality and evidentiality
5.5 Mental process verbs and commitment to truth
5.6 Conclusion
Chapter Six: Commitment to truth: expectation markers
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Adverbs of certainty and actuality
6.3 Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Bringing together corpus linguistics and oral history
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Corpus linguistics and oral history archives
7.3 Considering context
7.4 Final reflection
Appendices
Index
Biography
Chris Fitzgerald is a postdoctoral research fellow on the Interactional Variation Online project at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
