‘Ignore that 'cause it's totally irrelevant’: Marking lesser relevance in lectures

Deroey, Katrien; Taverniers, Miriam

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“…The following account of relevance marking presents the main findings from two separate studies on relevance markers (Deroey and Taverniers 2012a) and markers of lesser relevance (Deroey and Taverniers 2012b). Relevance markers were classified into lexicogrammatical patterns depending on their main element (verb, noun, adjective, adverb), while markers of lesser relevance were classified pragmatically as markers of message status, topic treatment, lecturer knowledge, assessment and attention and note-taking directives.…”

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“…The following description summarises the more detailed methodological accounts in Deroey and Taverniers (2012a) and Deroey and Taverniers (2012b). Initially, the author and a co-researcher independently identified lexicogrammatical indications of relatively (un)important discourse in four lectures of the subcorpus.…”

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“…The markers have been reduced to core lexemes and are illustrated with examples from the whole BASE lecture corpus. An overview of all markers can be found in Deroey and Taverniers (2012b). Few markers explicitly evaluate discourse as being irrelevant (e.g.…”

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“…This paper provides an overview of relevance marking by bringing together findings from my research on relevance markers (Deroey and Taverniers 2012a) and markers of lesser relevance (Deroey and Taverniers 2012b). These findings have a practical use in that they can inform EAP teaching and materials design, lecturer training, and experimental educational research.…”

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“…Linguistic devices for expressing lesser relevance in discourse can also "be used to indicate a desire to close a topic, to yield a turn, or to mitigate potential face threats" (Deroey & Taverniers, 2012, p. 2085. Therefore, these devices should be treated both as modal and interpersonal.…”

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Expressing Lesser Relevance in Academic Conference Presentations

Yankova

Vassileva

2021

ESNBU

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While marking importance and relevance in academic discourse has been a widely researched topic, markers of lesser significance have so far been understudied. The article therefore focuses on some of the discoursal means of expressing lesser importance in conference presentations. The corpus of the study comprises recordings of 20 presentations in English at international linguistics conferences by speakers of various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The methodology follows Deroey and Taverniers’s (2012) study of lecture discourse, whereby depending on the way lesser importance is expressed, the markers are grouped under five categories. Their methodology is checked against the data provided by the transcriptions of the conference recordings to ascertain the extent to which it is applicable to other spoken academic genres. The ultimate objective is to provide steppingstones for interpreting information and distinguishing between what is important and relevant and less so in conference presentations, as well as for the identification of presenters’ motivation for employing this type of metadiscourse.

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The language of English academic lectures: The case of field of study in highlighting importance

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Keivanloo-Shahrestanaki

2017

Lingua

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‘Ignore that 'cause it's totally irrelevant’: Marking lesser relevance in lectures

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Expressing Lesser Relevance in Academic Conference Presentations

The language of English academic lectures: The case of field of study in highlighting importance

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