Discourse markers, as the elements which serve to establish writer-reader/speaker-audience intera... more Discourse markers, as the elements which serve to establish writer-reader/speaker-audience interaction, can be multi-functional. Considering the multi-functionality of discourse markers, this study will analyse the discourse marker you know in terms of its translation and function in an English–Persian context. For this purpose, the Mizan parallel corpus of English–Persian languages (13,596,676 tokens) was used. Alongside the parallel corpus, a second Persian corpus, the Bijankhan Corpus (68,560,954 words), was used as the reference corpus against which translations and functions were compared. From amongst the 5,349 tokens of you know in the English corpus, 991 were thetical. The analysis of the corpora indicated that the thetical you know had fourteen functions in English, while its counterpart miduni (‘you know’) in Persian had sixteen. From among the functions, claiming acceptance, introducing explanations and giving shared knowledge were the most prevalent in the parallel corpu...
Contemporaneously with the advances of technology as well as the advent of computers in language ... more Contemporaneously with the advances of technology as well as the advent of computers in language studies, we have witnessed a boom in the emergence of new books in Corpus Linguistics (see for example Dash & Ramamoorthy 2019; Paquot & Gries, 2020; Seoane & Biber, 2021). From among the informative books in this fast growing field of knowledge is the current one authored by Barth and Schnell in 2022. This work of scholarship has been organized in 11 chapters, which provide readers with state-of-the-art concepts of theory and practice for conducting research in the domain of Corpus Linguistics. The first two chapters function as an introduction in which the authors, succinctly, shed some light on the basic concept of corpus, its divergence from other approaches as well as its convergence with other usage-oriented fields within linguistics such as Sociolinguistics, Linguistics Typology and Language Change. The authors provide the reader with a definition of corpus and Corpus Linguistics, words, lexeme, type and token as well as some basic statistical concepts such as mode, mean and median. Later on, the authors make a distinction between structural context, syntagmatic context and constructional context in order to delineate the role of context in corpora. There are different types of corpora with specific composition criteria, which need to be delineated for the readers. In this regard, Chapter three, which is thematically divided into two parts, is a detailed description of the corpus composition criteria and typology. In the first part, the authors enumerate such concepts as size, balance, representativeness as well as authenticity and spontaneity as the core criteria for compiling a corpus. Furthermore, a subtle distinction is made between raw, primary
Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Tak... more Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, in this corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively and qualitatively the functions of four discourse markers in academic spoken English. To this purpose, four discourse markers, i.e., “I mean,” “I think,” “you see,” and “you know,” were selected for the study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was used as the data gathering source. To detect the discourse markers, concordance lines of the corpus were carefully read and analyzed. The quantitative analysis demonstrated that from among the four discourse markers, “you know” and “you see” were the most and the least frequent ones in the corpus, respectively. In line with the quantitative analysis, the qualitative analysis of the concordance lines demonstrated that there were various functions with regard to each of the four discourse markers. The findings of this study can have...
Discourse markers, as the elements which serve to establish writer-reader/speaker-audience intera... more Discourse markers, as the elements which serve to establish writer-reader/speaker-audience interaction, can be multi-functional. Considering the multi-functionality of discourse markers, this study will analyse the discourse marker you know in terms of its translation and function in an English–Persian context. For this purpose, the Mizan parallel corpus of English–Persian languages (13,596,676 tokens) was used. Alongside the parallel corpus, a second Persian corpus, the Bijankhan Corpus (68,560,954 words), was used as the reference corpus against which translations and functions were compared. From amongst the 5,349 tokens of you know in the English corpus, 991 were thetical. The analysis of the corpora indicated that the thetical you know had fourteen functions in English, while its counterpart miduni (‘you know’) in Persian had sixteen. From among the functions, claiming acceptance, introducing explanations and giving shared knowledge were the most prevalent in the parallel corpu...
Contemporaneously with the advances of technology as well as the advent of computers in language ... more Contemporaneously with the advances of technology as well as the advent of computers in language studies, we have witnessed a boom in the emergence of new books in Corpus Linguistics (see for example Dash & Ramamoorthy 2019; Paquot & Gries, 2020; Seoane & Biber, 2021). From among the informative books in this fast growing field of knowledge is the current one authored by Barth and Schnell in 2022. This work of scholarship has been organized in 11 chapters, which provide readers with state-of-the-art concepts of theory and practice for conducting research in the domain of Corpus Linguistics. The first two chapters function as an introduction in which the authors, succinctly, shed some light on the basic concept of corpus, its divergence from other approaches as well as its convergence with other usage-oriented fields within linguistics such as Sociolinguistics, Linguistics Typology and Language Change. The authors provide the reader with a definition of corpus and Corpus Linguistics, words, lexeme, type and token as well as some basic statistical concepts such as mode, mean and median. Later on, the authors make a distinction between structural context, syntagmatic context and constructional context in order to delineate the role of context in corpora. There are different types of corpora with specific composition criteria, which need to be delineated for the readers. In this regard, Chapter three, which is thematically divided into two parts, is a detailed description of the corpus composition criteria and typology. In the first part, the authors enumerate such concepts as size, balance, representativeness as well as authenticity and spontaneity as the core criteria for compiling a corpus. Furthermore, a subtle distinction is made between raw, primary
Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Tak... more Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, in this corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively and qualitatively the functions of four discourse markers in academic spoken English. To this purpose, four discourse markers, i.e., “I mean,” “I think,” “you see,” and “you know,” were selected for the study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was used as the data gathering source. To detect the discourse markers, concordance lines of the corpus were carefully read and analyzed. The quantitative analysis demonstrated that from among the four discourse markers, “you know” and “you see” were the most and the least frequent ones in the corpus, respectively. In line with the quantitative analysis, the qualitative analysis of the concordance lines demonstrated that there were various functions with regard to each of the four discourse markers. The findings of this study can have...
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