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Miriam Voghera
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NUMERAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPOKEN ITALIAN AND SPANISH: FROM QUANTITATIVE APPROXIMATION TO INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
2019
Two general considerations can derived from all the considered data. Firstly, it is possible to trace a continuum of NuCxs based on their degree of cohesion, fixedness, specificity and idiomaticity, which correlates with the kind of approximate or vague meaning and function. The more the NuCxs become idiomatic the less they express quantity. In many cases, the constructions acquire a pragmatic value and codify a manner of express the degree of commitment, the attitude of the speakers and the kind of relationship s/he would like to enter into with the addressee. In these cases, the various levels of vagueness are often thickly intertwined and not easily untangled. Secondly, the approximate n…
What we learn about language from Spoken Corpus Linguistics?
2020
Al llarg de les darreres dècades, la Lingüística de Corpus Orals (LCO) ha avançat força en termes de quantitat i qualitat d’estudis (O’Keeffe & McCarthy 2010). En els darrers trenta anys s’ha assolit un gran progrés com mostra l’increment de corpus multimodals existents i les diverses investigacions sofisticades que aquests corpus han estimulat sobre la relació entre el component verbal i no-verbal de la comunicació oral (Knight 2011). La LCO és un camp de recerca molt vital que pot proporcionar dades i eines essencials per a avançar en el coneixement lingüístic. En aquest article m’ocupe de la contribució que la LCO i els resultats que ha produït proporcionen a la lingüística general. …