DANIEL SCHREIER/JUCKER, ANDREAS H./MARIANNE HUNDT [EDS.]. — Corpora: Pragmatics and Discource. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora [ICAME 29] 2008.

Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi. 2009. Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial front- & backcover, large 8vo: [vi], 516pp., [4]pp., 386pp., introduction, 22 contributions with tables - graphs - notes & references, table of contents, index. CONTENTS: Introduction: Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse. 1. Thomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts. 2. Irma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse. 3. Tanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts. 4. Minna Nevala: Friends will be 'friends'? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters. 5. Minna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction. 6. Anita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue? 7. Karin Aijmer: So er I just sort I dunno I think it’s just because...: A corpus study of I don’t know and dunno in learners’ spoken English. 8. Magnus Levin & Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text. 9. Karin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions. 10. Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005. 11. Stephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame. 12. Magali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction. 13. Naixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC. 14. Jukka Tyrkkö & Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing. 15. Arja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary. 16. Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions. 17. Carolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study. 18. Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing. 19. Daniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives. 20. Dagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis. 21. Alpo Honkapohja & Samuli Kaislaniemi & Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora. 22. Hans Martin Lehmann & Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 68: Language and Computers Studies in Practical Linguistics.