| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics Ser |
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Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Oral history and corpus linguistics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Selecting an archive -- 1.3 Corpus linguistics, historical texts and oral history -- 1.4 The oral history interview -- 1.5 Studies of orality in historical texts -- 1.6 Structure of the book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Bureau of Military History: Themes and characteristics -- 2.1 The creation of the Bureau of Military History -- 2.2 The question of reliability -- 2.3 Memory |
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2.4 The language of the Bureau of Military History archive -- 2.5 Autobiography and military discourse -- 2.6 Speaking of spokenness -- 2.7 Transcription -- References -- Chapter 3: Constructing the Corpus of Irish Historical Narratives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Representativeness and corpus size -- 3.3 Text selection -- 3.4 Data processing -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: General characteristics of the Corpus of Irish Historical Narratives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Investigating spokenness -- 4.3 Characteristics of COIHN: single-word items -- 4.3.1 Articles |
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4.3.2 Verb patterns and pronouns -- 4.3.3 Noun usage -- 4.4 Characteristics of COIHN: multi-word units -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Commitment to truth: Mental process verbs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Truth -- 5.3 Hedging and commitment to truth -- 5.4 Epistemic modality and evidentiality -- 5.5 Mental process verbs and commitment to truth -- 5.5.1 I think -- 5.5.2 I remember -- 5.5.3 I suppose -- 5.5.4 I believe -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Commitment to truth: Expectation markers -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Adverbs of certainty and actuality -- 6.2.1 Actually |
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6.2.2 In fact -- 6.2.3 Of course -- 6.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Bringing together corpus linguistics and oral history -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Corpus linguistics and oral history archives -- 7.3 Considering context -- 7.4 Final reflection -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Summary of comparative corpora used -- References -- Appendix B: 100 most frequent words in COIHN -- Appendix C: 100 most frequent three-word clusters in COIHN -- Appendix D: 3-4 word clusters containing remember in COIHN -- Appendix E: Occurrences of actually in sentence initial position -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000823585 |
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100082358X |
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