Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study of speech acts and, specifically, how it can profit from the adoption of this methodological approach. However, the acknowledged lack of correspondence between speech acts and linguistic forms makes basic form-based corpus searches unreliable in retrieving speech acts from a corpus. In fact, function-toform corpus research can prove much more fruitful in carrying out this kind of study, but it usually requires time-consuming manual annotation, which in turn means that there have been few attempts to employ this methodology. As a contribution in this new direction, this study will showcase a function-toform approach to investigating speech acts of agreement and disagreement in spoken Catalan. Through this example, this paper aims to show the benefits of designing, compiling, transcribing and, especially, annotating one's own corpus for the study of speech acts. In order to annotate data for the study of speech acts, a complex and multi-layered annotation system was designed and manually applied, so that all the different aspects that play a relevant role in the expression of agreement and disagreement could be covered. In addition to discussing the findings from this study, it is argued that the possibilities of exploitation provided by the resulting annotated corpus far outweigh the time cost and open the door to in-depth analyses of speech acts and politeness in naturally occurring spoken data. function-to-form approach to the study of speech acts and central to this is the careful design of the corpus and annotation system (as detailed below). Corpus design for the study of agreement/disagreement According to Kasper and Dahl (1991), research instruments are one of the main causes of variation in pragmatic studies, together with sociolinguistic elements. Discourse completion tests (DCTs) and role plays have amassed a long tradition in pragmatics, but the combination of pragmatics with corpus linguistics turns the use of naturally-occurring discourse into a basic requirement. Once a corpus is compiled or obtained, corpus linguistics can be brought in as a methodological tool (O'Keeffe and Walsh 2012: 161), in order to lead to "greater depth of analysis in combination with another theoretical framework". The quantitative nature of corpus linguistics can be combined with different frameworks which focus on a qualitative approach, such as conversation analysis (e.g.
El estudio de la empatía se ha convertido en un foco de interés para disciplinas muy diversas y a la vez complementarias, cuyas aportaciones han permitido empezar a vislumbrar cómo se vehicula esta capacidad en una gran variedad de situaciones desde un punto de vista lingüístico y paralingüístico. Dentro de la investigación en el marco del discurso institucional, este artículo se propone analizar el papel de la empatía en tutorías universitarias, un género marcado por unas características definitorias concretas que parten de una desigualdad jerárquica entre profesor y estudiante. Más concretamente, el análisis cualitativo de un corpus de veinte tutorías universitarias se centra en los mecanismos de atenuación a través de los cuales se puede manifestar la empatía en casos en los que el profesor está en desacuerdo con el estudiante. Los resultados ilustran que el posicionamiento más o menos cercano de los profesores respecto a su rol institucional, que depende del tema concreto que estén discutiendo con los estudiantes, determina la presencia de mecanismos lingüísticos de atenuación con valor empático. Cuando adoptan un rol marcadamente institucional, la empatía se mantiene a un nivel cognitivo y no entra en el terreno afectivo. Mediante el análisis pormenorizado de estas manifestaciones, este estudio aplica los avances en la exploración de la empatía y su relación con la atenuación en un contexto y una lengua concretos para contribuir al estudio de este fenómeno.
This paper analyzes the way speakers perceive the transgression of the rules of word formation, particularly regarding neoclassical final combining forms, which are elements with a marked use and whose morphological combining standards are quite restrictive. This transgression consists in combining a native Catalan word and a final combining form, the result of which has been assigned an expressive value. In order to test these perceptions, we developed a questionnaire and administered it to 152 speakers of Catalan from different backgrounds. These speakers were asked to evaluate 20 neologisms documented in the Catalan press regarding their context of use and their connotations. The results show that speakers perceive that those forms that “break” the expected rules are more likely to appear in an informal or colloquial context, and they generally assign them an ironic or pejorative value. Finally, this study aims to present compounds as a promising topic of interest within morphopragmatics.
A pesar de la relevancia de internet y las redes sociales entre la población más joven, contamos con pocos estudios que se centren en el uso del catalán en estos contextos. En este artículo, llevamos a cabo un análisis cualitativo de la situación del catalán en TikTok y Twitch, dos plataformas que han crecido de forma significativa en los últimos años. Twitch ofrece la posibilidad de crear contenidos de ámbitos específicos en catalán, mientras que en TikTok el uso de varios hashtags, pero especialmente #estiktokat, aseguran la indexicalidad de los vídeos. Estos resultados demuestran que los creadores de contenidos en catalán participan activamente en estas plataformas y que han desarrollado estrategias para asegurar que se crea contenido en catalán y que es accesible para otros usuarios.
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