Conversational Routines In English

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317896937

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Conversational Routines in English by Karin Aijmer Pdf

It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication. This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317896920

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Conversational Routines in English by Karin Aijmer Pdf

It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication. This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110809145

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Conversational Routine by Florian Coulmas Pdf

This collection of essays addresses the notion of 'conversational routine', and explores the characteristics of some of the more prepatterned, formulaic, and conventionalized aspects of conversational activity from a variety of perspectives. In his preface, Coulmas claims conversational interaction has its own rules, different from a linguist's notion of 'rule', and that 'conversational rules and routines purport to structure and make possible both the predictable and the non-predictable aspects of conversation' (p. x). Hence the importance of this relatively unexplored side of conversational patterning. Of the thirteen papers included here, three have been previously published in academic journals; the rest are new. Half the authors are European, half are North American; and their disciplines range through linguistics, English, educational linguistics, language teaching, sociology, and psycholinguistics. -- From http://www.jstor.org (Feb. 13, 2015).

Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt,Ken Turner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588112071

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Meaning Through Language Contrast by Katarzyna Jaszczolt,Ken Turner Pdf

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Marta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.

Author : Christopher Butler,Raquel Hidalgo Downing,Julia Lavid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230951

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Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by Christopher Butler,Raquel Hidalgo Downing,Julia Lavid Pdf

This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Author : Jane Flynn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153939218X

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Conversational English for Spanish Speakers by Jane Flynn Pdf

This program will result in rapid acquisition of everyday conversational routines such as asking for directions, talking about families, and planning free time activities with friends. Spanish-speaking newcomers to the U.S. from middle school through adult will quickly become comfortable with engaging in conversations with native English speakers. This program can also be used for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) study in Spanish-speaking countries. Contrary to the prevailing method of teaching English--isolated vocabulary terms and grammar--this program immerses students immediately in listening and participating in everyday conversations. It is based on the audio-lingual approach used by the United States foreign service to quickly give their diplomats and embassy workers functional language skills in the language of their destination country. Unique to this book is the opportunity to personalize each conversational routine/chapter for the students who comprise the learning group. This is the first in a series of books: Future editions will feature other languages, e.g., Chinese and Somali.

Author : Christoph Rühlemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107650237

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Narrative in English Conversation by Christoph Rühlemann Pdf

Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841097049

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Conversational Routine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott Thornbury,Diana Slade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521814263

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Conversation by Scott Thornbury,Diana Slade Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is followed by an informed account of the development of conversation in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes a range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with practical classroom applications.

Author : Jack Miller,Leigh Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1482730847

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English Conversation Practice by Jack Miller,Leigh Stewart Pdf

This book is a new way of mastering vocabulary and verb in context. If you are experiencing difficulty in expressing yourself in English, then this book is for you! An innovative method of learning and practicing vocabulary and verbs in English.PRACTICAL METHODIn order to communicate effectively in another language, you don't need to know all the words of that particular language. You only really need to learn between 2000 to 3000 words - this is because the same words are constantly repeated. Think about it! Your daily routine is often the same - you wake up, eat, drink, work, sleep, have fun etc. This book will enable you to MASTER the vocabulary, verbs and expressions used in these periods of your day mentioned above. After reading this book, you will:* Master more than 185 commonly used verbs in context in the English language.* Master the main adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and phrases that native speakers of English use.* Practice speaking with more than 160 questions in English.* Learn more than 3000 words in English, enabling you to express yourself effortlessly with a large English vocabulary.* Master the most important daily vocabulary and verbs in English.* Master the most important irregular verbs in English.

Author : Roberta Corrigan,Edith A. Moravcsik,Hamid Ouali,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290168

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Formulaic Language by Roberta Corrigan,Edith A. Moravcsik,Hamid Ouali,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a variety of languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and include analyses of styles and genres within these languages. While the first volume focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, the second volume explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and what their functions in discourse are. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.

Author : Nele Põldvere,Rachele De Felice,Carita Paradis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009062329

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Advice in Conversation by Nele Põldvere,Rachele De Felice,Carita Paradis Pdf

This Element is a contribution to a new generation of corpus pragmatics research by taking as its starting point the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation, and by adopting a mixed-methods approach. Through a unique combination of theoretical, qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches, it provides a detailed investigation of advice-giving and advice uptake in relation to (i) the range of constructions used to give advice in different discourse contexts and at different points in time, and (ii) their interaction with dialogic and social factors of advice uptake as key components of frames of advice exchanges in natural conversation. Using data from the London-Lund Corpora of spoken British English, the Element shows, firstly, that there are systematic differences in advising between discourse contexts over the past half a century, and, secondly, that who gave the advice and how they did it are the strongest predictors of the advisee's response. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Martin Warren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253958

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Features of Naturalness in Conversation by Martin Warren Pdf

The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness, artifacts, inexplicitness and shared responsibility. These nine features of naturalness in conversation serve to distinguish conversation from specialized discourse types. The study illustrates the nine defining features of conversation with authentic conversational data collected surreptitiously in England. While this study is of native speakers of English, the nine defining features of naturalness of English conversation are applicable to conversations conducted in other languages.

Author : Svenja Adolphs,Dawn Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000049725

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The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities by Svenja Adolphs,Dawn Knight Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities serves as a reference point for key developments related to the ways in which the digital turn has shaped the study of the English language and of how the resulting methodological approaches have permeated other disciplines. It draws on modern linguistics and discourse analysis for its analytical methods and applies these approaches to the exploration and theorisation of issues within the humanities. Divided into three sections, this handbook covers: sources and corpora; analytical approaches; English language at the interface with other areas of research in the digital humanities. In covering these areas, more traditional approaches and methodologies in the humanities are recast and research challenges are re-framed through the lens of the digital. The essays in this volume highlight the opportunities for new questions to be asked and long-standing questions to be reconsidered when drawing on the digital in humanities research. This is a ground-breaking collection of essays offering incisive and essential reading for anyone with an interest in the English language and digital humanities.

Author : Zhichang Xu,Deyuan He,David Deterding
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319531106

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Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art by Zhichang Xu,Deyuan He,David Deterding Pdf

This volume offers a timely collection of original research papers on the various features and issues surrounding Chinese English, one of the varieties in World Englishes with a large and increasing number of learners and users. The five sections entitled ‘Researching Chinese English Pronunciation’, ‘Researching Chinese English Lexis, Grammar and Pragmatics’, ‘Researching Perceptions, Attitudes and Reactions towards Chinese English’, ‘Researching Cultural Conceptualizations and Identities in Chinese English’, and ‘Chinese Scholarship on Chinese English’, bring together three generations of Chinese and overseas researchers, both established and emerging, who offer lively dialogues on the current research, development and future of Chinese English. The introductory chapter by the editors on the state-of-the-art of researching Chinese English, and a concluding chapter by a leading researcher in World Englishes on the future directions for researching Chinese English make this an essential title for those who wish to gain insights on Chinese English.