Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
| Autor: | Alba Milà-Garcia |
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Linguistics and Language
Computer science media_common.quotation_subject computer.software_genre Time cost Language and Linguistics Politeness 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Annotation Disagreement Speech acts media_common 060201 languages & linguistics Pragmatics business.industry Pragmatic annotation Methodology 06 humanities and the arts Computer Science Applications Corpus pragmatics Manual annotation 0602 languages and literature Artificial intelligence Computational linguistics 0305 other medical science business computer Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname |
| Popis: | 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. 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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