Spoken Corpora And Linguistic Studies (studies In Corpus Linguistics)
by Tommaso Raso /
2014 / English / PDF
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The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory and a passionate belief in the central role of prosody for the analysis of speech. Four distinct sections (spoken corpora compilation spoken corpora annotation prosody and syntax and information structure) give the book the structure in which the authors present innovative methodologies that focus on the compilation of third generation spoken corpora multilevel spoken corpora annotation and its functions and additionally a debate is initiated about the reference unit in the study of spoken language via information structure. The book is accompanied by a web site with a rich array of audio/video files. The web site can be found at the following address: DOI: 10.1075/scl.61.media
