Lexicography, Grammar, and Textual Position

Hoey, Michael; O’Donnell, Matthew Brook

doi:10.1093/ijl/ecn025

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“…The gulf between the pre-corpus learners' dictionaries and corpus-based ones with respect to the paradigmatic/syntagmatic axis has been commented on by Hoey and Brook O'Donnell (2008).…”

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Corpora and Language Education

Flowerdew

2012

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“…The gulf between the pre-corpus learners' dictionaries and corpus-based ones with respect to the paradigmatic/syntagmatic axis has been commented on by Hoey and Brook O'Donnell (2008).…”

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Corpora and Language Education

Flowerdew

2012

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“…Following established procedure (e.g., Hoey and O'Donnell 2008;Rühlemann 2013), positions were calculated as proportions obtained from dividing the number of words preceding the backchannel by the total number of words in the story. Positional values range on a continuum from 0 (very first position) to 1 (very last position).…”

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Integrating Corpus-Linguistic and Conversation-Analytic Transcription in XML: The Case of Backchannels and Overlap in Storytelling Interaction

Rühlemann

2017

Corpus Pragmatics

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This paper sketches out and illustrates the research opportunities that come with the recent addition to BNCweb of very large numbers of audio files for the spoken component in the BNC. It aims to demonstrate that the availability of the audio files enables researchers not only to correct the orthographic transcripts, but also to re-transcribe the conversations using conversation-analytic transcription. It also shows that the CA transcripts can be integrated into the BNC's XML annotation network and illustrates how XML query tools such as XPath and XQuery can be used to efficiently exploit the XML network. The main thrust of the paper is to argue that the integration of corpus-linguistic and conversation-analytic transcription in XML can make major contributions both to CL and CA. CL research into conversation can for the first time be performed on the basis of transcription that is ''detailed enough to facilitate the analyst's quest to discover and describe orderly practices of social action in interaction'' (Hepburn and Bolden, in: Sidnell, Stivers (eds) The handbook of conversation analysis, Wiley Malden, 2013: 58) while CA research can gain a large-scale quantitative basis to substantiate claims about the generalizability of observed regularities and patterns in talk-in-interaction. To illustrate the benefits of doing research on re-transcriptions of the BNC's audio files, a case study is presented on backchannels occurring in overlap in storytelling interaction. The case study reveals, inter alia, that backchannels produced by story recipients simultaneously with parts of the storyteller's ongoing turn tend to increase in frequency as the storytelling reaches its climax. Backchannel overlap is thus in synchrony with story organization. This finding adds weight to Goodwin's observation that recipients attend to the task ''not simply of listening to the events being recounted but rather of distinguishing different subcomponents of the talk in terms of the alternative possibilities for action they invoke'' (Goodwin, in:

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“…This idea of the positional preference of words and phrases has been explored at the textual level in a number of studies (e.g. Hoey 2004Hoey , 2009Hoey & O'Donnell 2008;Mahlberg & O'Donnell 2008;Römer 2010). However, this is one of the first studies to discuss how the position of formulaic expressions influences their prosodic patterns.…”

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The prosody of formulaic expression in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus

Lin

2013

IJCL

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This article examines the distribution of the nucleus around selected formulaic expressions in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus (SEC). The study reveals the presence of a positional bias such that formulaic expressions found at the end of intonation units are more likely to receive the nucleus than those found at the beginning. Amongst the formulaic expressions located at the end of intonation units, 70 percent have the nucleus assigned to the last lexical word of the expressions. For the remaining cases, the obligatory nuclei are found either on the lexical words immediately preceding the expressions or on the first words, the degree words or the flexible slots within the expressions. The study shows how prosodically annotated corpora may facilitate research on the prosody of formulaic expressions. At the same time, it also raises awareness of the issues confronting this new research avenue.

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Lexicography, Grammar, and Textual Position

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Corpora and Language Education

Corpora and Language Education

Integrating Corpus-Linguistic and Conversation-Analytic Transcription in XML: The Case of Backchannels and Overlap in Storytelling Interaction

The prosody of formulaic expression in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus

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