Conversation in Context
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Conversation in Context: A Corpus-driven Approach(Corpus and Discourse)

Conversation in Context: A Corpus-driven Approach(Corpus and Discourse)


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"Conversation in Context" examines real-life speech data from the British National Corpus to show how language is used in natural conversation. The monograph describes the composition, annotation and transcription of the corpus, as well as providing a discussion of the methodology used in corpus analysis. The book uses a situational framework for conversation and argues that conversation is adapted to constraints set by the situation and to speaker needs arising from these constraints. Such a contextual view reveals a greater complexity to conversation construction than could have been anticipated without the use of corpus-based methods. This book will be of interest to academics researching corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents:
1. Background: Conversation, grammar and corpora 2. Data and methods 3. A situational framework for conversation 4. Shared-context phenomena 5. Co-construction phenomena 6. Discourse management phenomena 7. Real-time processing phenomena 8. Relation management phenomena 9. Conclusions and implications

About the Author :
Dr Christoph Rüehlemann has a PhD in English Linguistics from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and is an English and German teacher.

Review :
"This interesting and readable book offers both detailed, focused investigations of very specific conversation phenomena (as you would expect from a revised PhD dissertation), and a comprehensive literature overview, and the beginnings of a general framework for studying conversation phenomena in general. As the subtitle "A Corpus-driven Approach" indicates, the book comes from the tradition of and is mainly aimed at corpus linguistics, but it should be of interest to anyone who studies conversation, including computational linguists, philosophers of language, sociologists, and cognitive scientists...this book offers a wealth of interesting and useful observations, analyses, references, and methodological inspirations and is to be recommended to everyone interested in (data-oriented) analysis of conversation." - David Schlangen, Linguist List, October 6, 2008 "Conversation in Context is a welcome addition to the slowly growing body of research that integrates corpus-based performance features of conversation, situation and context, and social demographics of speakers in the description of spoken discourse. Ruhlemann presents an extensive survey of recent literature and his study pursues a credible research design that is grounded on solid corpus-based traditions" Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2008 "What is beyond doubt is that the book will be of value to anyone with an interest in spoken language. Ruehlemann synthesizes a huge amount of descriptive work on spoken language in a coherent, accessible, and often engaging manner; he also gives valuable guidance to areas which have potential for further research. Personally, this book reinvigorated my long-standing interest in the teaching and description of spoken language." -- ELT Journal "To sum up, Conversation in Context is not only another book about British conversation. Rühlemann provides a coherent theoretical framework for analysing grammatical or discoursal phenomena in conversation as shown by the variety of case studies. The empirical case studies do not only fit and strenghten the model but they represent a new way of looking at grammar and offer a new and deeper understanding of many grammatical phenomena. It remains to be seen what other features (if any) are needed to account for spoken or conversational grammar and to test these factors on the basis of more data. The book can be recommended to anyone interested in pragmatics (and sociopragmatics), discourse analysis and corpora. The book is well-written with useful and frequent to-the-point summaries. It opens up new vistas for research on grammar in conversation and other registers and is likely to have an impact on many areas in applied linguistics." -- Professor Emeritus Karin Aijmer, ICAME Journal 33 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826497130
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
  • Weight: 550 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0826497136
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Corpus-driven Approach
  • Width: 156 mm


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