Spoken Corpora And Linguistic Studies

Author : Tommaso Raso
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270031
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies written by Tommaso Raso and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Şükriye Ruhi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865540
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices for Spoken Corpora in Linguistic Research written by Şükriye Ruhi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key concern of researchers involved in the creation and sharing of language resources is to attain maximum usability, reliability and longevity of these resources for present and future researchers in the language sciences. The view developed in this volume is that spoken corpora construction and sharing are major research endeavours that should also be laid open to academic debate in a manner that is more visible than is currently the case in corpus linguistics. The present volume brings together multiple research perspectives to bear on the question of what constitutes best practices for the construction of spoken corpora. The book brings into closer contact scholars whose specializations have often remained in relatively different streams of scientific investigation; that is, scholars whose work falls primarily in conversation analysis, pragmatics and discourse analysis, but who are involved in spoken corpus compilation, on the one hand, and scholars who also specialize in linguistics but who have been intensively involved in developing various infrastructures for spoken corpora, on the other hand. This combination of scholars brings into better relief the concerns of data providers, data curators and data users in linguistic research. This book is thus unique in that it highlights best practices from both the perspective of assembling, annotating and linguistic analysis of spoken corpora, as well as from the perspective of processing, archiving and disseminating spoken language. In doing so, the contributions emphasise not only the considerable promise that the rapid technological changes that society continues to experience in this area offer, but also possible dangers for the unwary.

Author : Mari Carmen Campoy
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039112753
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics written by Mari Carmen Campoy and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the opportunities that spoken corpora offer and the challenges of research with such corpora. The use and applications of spoken corpora are discussed from the perspective of both language analysis and language pedagogy. Twelve chapters written by corpus linguists analyse an extensive number of spoken corpora based on the oral production of speakers as varied as language learners, users of English as Lingua Franca, native speakers, or speakers of English in academic contexts. This book also highlights the growing emphasis on the use of corpus-based research by examining the implications of corpus findings in educational settings.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295581
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora written by Karin Aijmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Author : Svenja Adolphs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134056702
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoken Corpus Linguistics written by Svenja Adolphs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in corpus research, the spoken language can reveal patterns of language use that are both different and distinctive and that this has important implications for the way in which language is described, for the study of human communication and for the field of applied linguistics as a whole. Spoken Corpus Linguistics is divided into two main parts. The first part sets the scene by discussing traditional and new approaches to monomodal spoken corpus analysis, with a focus on discourse organisation and conversational interaction and with particular attention to forms of language such as discourse markers and multi-word units, areas of language not conventionally described but which are argued to be of importance to spoken language description and to spoken language learning and teaching research within the field of applied linguistics. The second part of the book moves into the multimodal domain and focuses on alignments between language and gesture in a spoken corpus, with particular reference to gestural movements of the head and the hand and to the different ways in which prosody might be used to enhance communication. A brief final chapter discusses new developments in the area of spoken corpus research, including the relationship between language and context, emerging research methods as well as discussing possible shifts in scope and emphasis in spoken corpus research in the future.

Author : Amina Mettouchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268894
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages written by Amina Mettouchi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages. In addition to the rarity of corpus studies based on endangered and lesser-described languages, the volume is remarkable due to its focus on the role of prosody in interaction with several other phenomena, including code-switching and borrowing. Phonology, syntax, and information structure are explored, and the issue of the elaboration of strategies for the typological comparison of corpora is addressed in several papers. The volume also contains a presentation of software development conducted within the scope of the CorpAfroAs project and based upon the widely used ELAN. The sound-indexed, and morphosyntactically-annotated corpora, with their OLAC metadata and several other deliverables can be accessed and searched at http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.68.website.

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233179
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics written by Yuji Kawaguchi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Author : Eric Friginal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319599003
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora written by Eric Friginal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners. Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined, this original work makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of ESL spoken language at university level. It will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis.

Author : Shlomo Izre'el
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261539
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language written by Shlomo Izre'el and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.

Author : Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403998930
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corpora and Language Education written by Lynne Flowerdew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpora and Language Education critically examines key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken corpora now play in the fields of professional communication, teacher education, translation studies, lexicography, literature, critical discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics. The book also presents a series of corpus-based case studies illustrating central themes and best practices in the field.