LINGUIST List 22.3669 Wed Sep 21 2011 Diss: Discourse Analysis: Gawlik: 'Basic Verba Dicendi in Academic ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Oskar Gawlik , Basic Verba Dicendi in Academic Spoken English Message 1: Basic Verba Dicendi in Academic Spoken English Date: 06-Sep-2011 From: Oskar Gawlik <oskargawlikvp.pl> Subject: Basic Verba Dicendi in Academic Spoken English E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland Program: discourse analysis Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2010 Author: Oskar Gawlik Dissertation Title: Basic Verba Dicendi in Academic Spoken English Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Dissertation Director(s): Andrzej ?yda Dissertation Abstract: The main goal of the dissertation was to explore the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and functions of basic verba dicendi (say, talk, tell and speak) in contemporary American academic spoken English (in the MICASE corpus of lectures). A point of departure for my investigations was the fact that all the four verbs are employed to report speech acts, but these verba dicendi may perspectivize the linguistic scene in different ways. Consequently, what was of focal interest in my doctoral dissertation was the way of perspectivizing the acts of locution by means of basic verba dicendi, with corpus linguistics constituting the most suitable methodological tool, complemented, inter alia, by introspective judgments. The implications and applications of the findings may be numerous, ranging from pedagogical ones (material writers would be in a better position to generate EAP textbooks which might reflect actual language use) to linguistic ones: linguists could either validate or disconfirm their hypotheses concerning the actual occurrences of basic verba dicend in the academic milieu. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.