Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres [Hardcover]

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.

Introduction by Jes?s Romero-Trillo.- Part I: SOCIETY, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CORPUS PRAGMATICS.- Towards a cyberpragmatics of mobile instant messaging by Francisco Yus.-  Connected parents: combining online and off-line parenthood in blogs and vlogs by Carmen Santamar?a-Garc?a.- Healing and comfort on the net: Gender and emotions in domestic violent environments by Eva M. Mestre-Mestre.- The more please [places] I see the more I think of home: On gendered discourse of Irishness and migration experiences by Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma, & Carolina P. Amador-Moreno.- A cross-linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in financial discourse by Mar?a Muelas-Gil.- Part II: LINGUISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CORPUS PRAGMATICS.- Teaching pragmatics with corpus data: The development of a corpus-referred website for the instruction of routine formulas in Russian by Edie Furniss.- Beyond engaged listenership:  Assessing Spanish unl“+