Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics

<p><em>Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics</em> provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics this book:</p><p>• covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts deixis pragmatic markers evaluation conversational structure and multimodality;</p><p>• demonstrates the use of freely-available corpora corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct original pragmatic analyses;</p><p>• is accompanied by an e-resource which hosts multimodal data sets for additional exercises.</p><p>Featuring case studies and practical tasks within each chapter <em>Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics</em> is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in pragmatics.</p>