I made an enquiry some time ago on the list about using corpus based
research in historical pragmatics. I am still having an interesting time
finding out about the possibility of a friendship between the three
potentially disparate areas of historical linguistics, pragmatics and
corpus-based study. In the meantime I have been sent three useful
responses which I thought I would pass back to the list.
The replies were from Cathy Ball at Georgetown University, Alan Morrison
at the Oxford Text Archive and Evren Alpaslan at UMIST. They all made
some very helpful suggestions and some of the help is on-going! Thank you
all very much....
SO HERE ARE THE SUGGESTIONS FOR ANYONE WHO'S INTERESTED. ANY MORE WILL OF
COURSE BE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED!
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>From Cathy Ball:
I have two resources you might find useful. One is my Pragmatics course
page, at
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/ling482/ling482.html
There aren't any lecture notes to speak of, but the readings will give you
starting points.
The other is my Corpus Linguistics tutorial, at
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html
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>From Alan Morrison:
I am assuming that you have looked at the OTA Web site and catalogue of
holdings (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/)
The best Web page I have found is one on Corpus Linguistics
(http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html)
There is also an excellent electronic discussion group called CORPORA
To be added to the distribution list, send a message to:
with the line
subscribe corpora
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>From Evren Alpaslan (Lots of help, particularly....):
*1)ATKINSON, J. Maxwell and P. DREW
1979 Order in Court: The Organisation of Verbal Interaction in
Judicial Settings.
Houndsmill: Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd.
ISBN: 0-333-24431-1
2)BROWN, Penelope and S.C. LEVINSON
1987 Politeness: Some Linguistic Universals in Language Usage.
Cambridge: CUP
(Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
ISBN: 0-521-3155-4
3)EDWARDS, Jane A. and M.D. LAMPERT (eds.)
1993 Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research.
London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
ISBN: 0-8058-0349-1
4)LEECH, Geoffrey
1992 "Pragmatic principles in Shaw's `You Never Can Tell'" in
Language, Text and Context: Essay in stylistics.
London: Routledge, 259-278.
5)LEECH, Geoffrey
1983 Principles of Pragmatics.
London: Longman.
ISBN: 0-582-55110-2
6)STILES, William B.
1992 Describing Talk: A Taxonomy of Verbal Response Modes.
London: Sage Publications
*Evren sent this reference because I am focusing on legal texts in the
corpus.
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I hope these might be useful to someone, do get in touch if you have
anything to add!
Yours,
Frances Rock (Lancaster University)
email : f.rock@lancaster.ac.uk