The research for this publication draws on a number of spoken corpus resources with a view
to gaining a better understanding of the extent to which the analysis of spoken corpus data …

Throughout the development of corpus linguistics there has been a noticeable focus on
analysing written language, and with written corpora now exceeding the one-billionword …

This paper argues for a reorientation of speech act theory towards an Austin-inspired
conception of speech acts as context-changing social actions. After an overview of the role …

Over the past two decades, William Hanks has explored the dynamics of verbal interaction,
and how speakers and listeners make meaning through language. With equal commitment …

This chapter describes the contributions corpus-linguistic research can make to pragmatics,
the study of meaning in context. It reviews corpus research into core pragmatic phenomena …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

Since this series has been variously and confusingly cited as: Georgetown University
Monographic Series on Languages and Linguistics, Monograph Series on Languages and …

This article is a continuation of a line of investigation I began in'Literal Meaning'. l Its aim is to
explore some of the relations between the meaning of words and sentences and the context …

One of the widely used definitions of pragmatics (and not the most infelicitous one) is that it
deals with the ways in which linguistic utterances become meaningful through their relation …

As an explicitly usage-based model of language structure (Barlow & Kemmer, 2000),
cognitive grammar draws on the notion of 'usage events' of language as the starting point …