Overview
- Provides a new, cross-linguistically valid, model of temporal reference
- Includes corpus data and experimental data from 4 languages
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach
Part of the book series: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics (YCLP)
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This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.
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“This book sheds a welcome new light on the study of temporal reference at the macro-levels (e.g. the discursive and the cognitive level) and offers a useful synthesis of various perspectives related to the study of language.” (Jianhua Zhang, Pragmatics and Society, Vol. 11 (3), 2020)
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Book Title: Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
Authors: Cristina Grisot
Series Title: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96752-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96751-6Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07243-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96752-3Published: 06 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2213-6819
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6827
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 319
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations
Topics: Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics