Medium-transferability and corpora: Remarks from the consumer-end of corpus linguistics

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  • Jürgen Esser

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v7i13.25073

Abstract

A distinction is made between units and categories that are medium-independent (e.g. word class, noun phrase and clause) and those that are tied to the medium of realization. While the orthographic sentence is a typical highly conventionalised unit that is tied to the written medium, the tone unit is a typical unit of the spoken medium. There are, however, some problems related to this unit of realisation. Not only is the tone unit and its organisation into higher-level units subject to theoretical dispute, it also has a different status in speaking and reading respectively, which so far has been largely ignored in corpus linguistics.

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Published

2017-01-04

How to Cite

Esser, J. (2017). Medium-transferability and corpora: Remarks from the consumer-end of corpus linguistics. HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 7(13), 45–53. https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v7i13.25073

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