Data in historical pragmatics

Spoken interaction (re)cast as writing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12821663
AutoresJonathan Culpeper (0000-0001-9833-6087, Lancaster University, autor correspondente), Merja Kytö (0000-0002-7877-5522, Uppsala University)
Ano2000
Volume1
Fascículo2
Páginas175-199
Data de publicação2000-08-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1566-5852 • E-ISSN: 1569-9854
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jhp.1.2.03cul
OpenAlexW2013185865
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24

In this paper we examine four speech-related text types in terms of how linguistically close they are to spoken face-to-face interaction. Our “conversational” diagnostics include lexical repetitions, question marks (as an indicator of question-answer adjacency pairs), interruptions, and several single word interactive features (first- and second-person pronouns, private verbs and demonstrative pronouns). We discuss the nature of these diagnostics and then consider their distribution across our text types and across the period 1600 to 1720. We reveal: (1) a differential distribution across our text types (and suggest a number of explanatory factors), and (2) a shift over our period towards features associated with spoken face-to-face interaction (and make the tentative suggestion that this finding may be due to the development of “popular” literatures). We also make some preliminary remarks about our Shakespeare sample

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