Karin Aijmer and Christoph Rühlemann (eds.), Corpus pragmatics: A handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 461.

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“…O' Keeffe et al (2007, p. 159), in their investigation of spoken English with the aim of informing English language teaching and learning, also reports that "the most frequent items found in the data had pragmatic functions in the organisation and management of conversation and in the speaker-listener relationship". From this, there is an argument to be made in that PMs are a pervasive feature of spoken language that can be found in any language, language varieties or even develop new pragmatic functions in the oral production of specific linguistic groups within a language variety (McCarthy, 1998;Andersen, 2015).…”

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Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

Santos¹

2019

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This paper presents the extent to which like is used as a pragmatic marker (PM) by Brazilian university students living in Ireland. This is a case study which is part of a broader PhD research project on L2 pragmatic development within a study-abroad context. The results and reflections of this study are based on a sample corpus of spoken language, which comprises four 30-minute informal interactions between 6 participants and the researcher. Drawing on the Limerick Corpus of Irish English, a representative corpus of spoken Irish English (IrE), the interpersonal functions and procedural meanings of the PM like in the participants’ L2 are compared and contrasted against those of the IrE data. Quantitatively, the PM like is found to be a keyword in the L2 corpus and three times more frequent by comparison to the IrE data. Qualitatively, this study shows evidence of like being used multifunctionally by the L2-speakers of English, with all functions of the PM also previously described in the literature on IrE. However, some specific functional patterns also emerge from the L2 data, which indicates the pragmatic needs and linguistic demands which may arise during communication when using an L2.***Pragmática da segunda língua: um estudo de corpus do marcador pragmático like***Este artigo apresenta a extensão com que like é usado como marcador pragmático (MP) por brasileiros universitários na Irlanda. Este é um estudo de caso, e parte de um projeto de pesquisa de doutorado sobre o desenvolvimento da pragmática da segunda língua (L2) no contexto de intercâmbio. Os resultados e reflexões deste estudo são embasados em uma amostra de um corpus de língua falada, que é constituído de quatro interações informais de 30 minutos entre 6 participantes e o pesquisador. Tendo como referência o Limerick Corpus of Irish English, um corpus representativo do inglês irlandês falado, as funções interpessoais e os significados procedurais do MP like usados pelos participantes são comparados e contrastados. Quantitativamente, o MP like se encontra como uma palavra-chave no corpus de L2, e é três vezes mais frequente se comparado com os dados do inglês irlandês. Qualitativamente, este estudo evidencia a multifuncionalidade de like na L2 dos participantes, sendo todas as funções usadas pelos participantes também previamente descritas na literatura sobre o inglês irlandês. Contudo, alguns padrões funcionais específicos também emergem do corpus de L2, o que indica as necessidades pragmáticas e exigências linguísticas que podem surgir durante a comunicação quando usando uma L2.

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Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

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2019

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Designing and building SCoPE²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English

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This paper presents the process of designing and building a bilingual spoken corpus in order to pragmatically analyse oral L2-English discourse produced by a group of Brazilian university students living in Ireland. It discusses some of the decisions made, challenges faced, and considerations taken while designing a do-it-yourself corpus with a theoretical framework grounded in Corpus Pragmatics. The main objective is to share the lessons learned by examining the steps of designing and building SCoPE², a bilingual spoken corpus, including the selection of participants, gathering data, and challenges in transcribing and coding spoken language with pragmatics in mind.

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Karin Aijmer and Christoph Rühlemann (eds.), Corpus pragmatics: A handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 461.

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Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

Designing and building SCoPE²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English

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