LINGUIST List 13.1603

Wed Jun 5 2002

Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Joybrato Mukherjee

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  • E.van.Broekhuizen, Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures by JoybratoMukherjee

    Message 1: Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures by JoybratoMukherjee

     Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 05:06:46 +0000
    From: E.van.Broekhuizen <E.van.Broekhuizenrodopi.nl>
    Subject: Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures by JoybratoMukherjee


    Title: Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures. Subtitle: A Corpus-based Study of Talk Units in Spoken English. Series Title: Language and Computers Vol. 35 Publication Year: 2001 Publisher: Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Author: Joybrato Mukherjee

    Hardback: ISBN: 9042012951, Pages: VII,163 pp., Price: US $ 38.--

    Abstract:

    This study investigates prosody-syntax interactions from a functional perspective and based on authentic corpus data. Drawing on Halliday's well-known interpretation of the tone unit as an information unit, Halford's idea of a prosodically and syntactically defined talk unit and Esser's concept of abstract presentation structures, a modified talk unit model is developed. The talk unit is built up of one to many tone unit(s). The focus of both the quantitative and the functional analysis is on the interplay between prosodic status and syntactic status at tone unit boundaries by means of which talk units as parasyntactic units are established. The database is provided by a sample of about 50,000 words mainly taken from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English. The findings reveal that speakers have at their disposal and make use of prosody-syntax interactions in order to structure information effectively and to allow for or facilitate turn taking. This volume is not only of interest for corpus linguists, but for functionalists in general and intonationists in particular. In analysing the stylistic and pragmatic potential of talk units and applying corpus linguistic methodology, this study breaks new ground with regard to functional and empirical approaches to spoken English.

    List of contents: Acknowledgements Ch. 1: Introduction: setting the aim of the present study in context Ch. 2: Para syntactic elements and configurations in corpus linguistics Ch. 3: Corpus data Ch. 4: Quantitative analysis Ch. 5: Functional analysis I: information structure Ch. 6: Functional analysis II: speaker interaction Ch. 7: Summary and prospects for future research References cited Index

    Lingfield(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)



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