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

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...

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Author: Milà-Garcia, Alba
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/35670
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs41701-018-0037-z
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Corpus pragmatics
Disagreement
Methodology
Speech acts
Politeness
Pragmatic annotation
Pragmatics
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spelling Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposalMilà-Garcia, AlbaCorpus pragmaticsDisagreementMethodologySpeech actsPolitenessPragmatic annotationPragmaticsWithin 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).Springer20182018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/35670http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs41701-018-0037-zreponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésCorpus Pragmatics. 2018;2(3):265-87. DOI: 10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z© Springer The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41701-018-0037-z.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/356702026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
title Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
spellingShingle Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
Milà-Garcia, Alba
Corpus pragmatics
Disagreement
Methodology
Speech acts
Politeness
Pragmatic annotation
Pragmatics
title_short Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
title_full Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
title_fullStr Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
title_full_unstemmed Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
title_sort Pragmatic annotation for a multi-layered analysis of speech acts: a methodological proposal
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Milà-Garcia, Alba
author Milà-Garcia, Alba
author_facet Milà-Garcia, Alba
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Corpus pragmatics
Disagreement
Methodology
Speech acts
Politeness
Pragmatic annotation
Pragmatics
topic Corpus pragmatics
Disagreement
Methodology
Speech acts
Politeness
Pragmatic annotation
Pragmatics
description 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.
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