Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal

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• dc.contributor.author Milà-Garcia, Alba
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-10-26T11:36:32Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study of speech acts and, specifically, how it can profit from the adoption of this methodological approach. However, the acknowledged lack of correspondence between speech acts and linguistic forms makes basic form-based corpus searches unreliable in retrieving speech acts from a corpus. In fact, function-to-form corpus research can prove much more fruitful in carrying out this kind of study, but it usually requires time-consuming manual annotation, which in turn means that there have been few attempts to employ this methodology. As a contribution in this new direction, this study will showcase a function-to-form approach to investigating speech acts of agreement and disagreement in spoken Catalan. Through this example, this paper aims to show the benefits of designing, compiling, transcribing and, especially, annotating one’s own corpus for the study of speech acts. In order to annotate data for the study of speech acts, a complex and multi-layered annotation system was designed and manually applied, so that all the different aspects that play a relevant role in the expression of agreement and disagreement could be covered. In addition to discussing the findings from this study, it is argued that the possibilities of exploitation provided by the resulting annotated corpus far outweigh the time cost and open the door to in-depth analyses of speech acts and politeness in naturally occurring spoken data.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Grant for universities and research centres for the recruitment of new research personnel (FI-DGR 2014) of the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Generalitat de Catalunya).
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• dc.identifier.citation Milà-Garcia A. Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal. Corpus Pragmatics. 2018;2(3):265-87. DOI: 10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs41701-018-0037-z
• dc.identifier.issn 2509-9507
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35670
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Corpus Pragmatics. 2018;2(3):265-87. DOI: 10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z
• dc.rights © Springer The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z.
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• dc.subject.keyword Corpus pragmatics
• dc.subject.keyword Disagreement
• dc.subject.keyword Methodology
• dc.subject.keyword Speech acts
• dc.subject.keyword Politeness
• dc.subject.keyword Pragmatic annotation
• dc.subject.keyword Pragmatics
• dc.title Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
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