Lexical Pragmatics
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Corpus Analysis
Overview of AHRC project corpus work |
| Corpus analysis and lexical pragmatics: An overview (September 2005). |
| Corpus analysis: A three-month synopsis (February 2005) |
Corpus analyses linked to project research questions
| 1. Can lexical narrowing be analysed in terms of default rules? |
| Part 1: | 'red eyes' |
| 2. Is there a continuum between literal use, approximation, hyperbole and metaphor? |
| Part 1: | 'painless' | Part 5: | 'angel' |
| Part 2: | 'boiling' | Part 6: | 'saint' |
| Part 3: | 'raw' | Part 7: | 'bulldozer' |
| Part 4: | 'bald' |
| 3. Do narrowing and broadening combine in the interpretation of a single word? |
| Part 1: | 'empty' | Part 4: | 'bare' |
| Part 2: | 'dry' | Part 5: | 'as cold as' (Bank of English) |
| Part 3: | 'full' | Part 6: | 'as cold as' (BNC) |
| 4. Can metonymy be analysed in inferential terms? |
| OED entries |
| 'raw' | 'boil' |
| 'empty' | 'angel' |
| 'full' | 'saint' |
| 'pain' |
| CORPUS.BYU.EDU/BNC (British National Corpus) |
| 100+ million word corpus of American English, 1920s-2000s |
| 350+ million word BYU American National Corpus (BANC),1990-2007 (available late ‘07) |
| Other large online corpora created by Mark Davies, BYU |
| Bibliography on Corpus studies |
| Delegates’ suggestions on corpus work |
| Bibliography P. Hanks |
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