Local grammar approaches to speech act studies apology in contemporary spoken British English / Hang Su, Sichuan International Studies University.

Author/creator Su, Hang
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Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm
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SeriesStudies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 123
Contents Introduction -- Local grammars and speech act studies -- A local grammar approach to speech act annotation -- Developing local grammars of speech acts -- A local grammar approach to identifying speech act constructions -- A local grammar approach to diachronic speech act analysis: changing patterns of apology in contemporary spoken British English -- A local grammar approach to contrastive speech act analysis: the impact of speaker sex and culture on apology use -- Conclusion.
Abstract "This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for investigating speech acts, namely, a local grammar approach to annotating speech acts, developing local grammars of speech acts, identifying speech act constructions via the lens of local grammars, and applying local grammars into contrastive speech act studies. These directions are illustrated with studies on apology in contemporary spoken British English, which shows that local grammar can be an innovative approach to advance speech act studies and that such research has significant implications and applications. The book would be of interest to researchers and students in corpus linguistics, pragmatics, construction grammar, and (L2) speech act research and teaching"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2025019980
ISBN9789027224200 hardcover
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