This study aims to focus on extracting and analyzing impoliteness in corpora in
British English and Turkish retrieved from two different corpora British National
Corpus (BNC) and Spoken Turkish Corpus (STC), which is under construction. It
focuses on conversation as genre in spoken interaction and discusses issues related
to impoliteness in a corpus driven linguistics (CDL) approach. It proposes two
levels / extraction and analysis. Within the CDL framework, the theory or model of
impoliteness behind the analysis will be forced by the findings gathered from the
extraction of impoliteness.
At the extraction level, among the spoken texts in both in BNC and the databases
of STC, for the purposes of this study, dialogues that include a conflict or an
offending event will be selected. In order to select such dialogues, various methods
will be applied. First, spoken texts will be scanned through an initial word query,
collocation query, question sentences and tags query, query for imperatives and
possible queries that allow for searching for prosodic nuances, as well as
interruptions and overlaps to the extent the corpora and the focus of the study
allow. Second, metapragmatics comments, conventionalized impoliteness
formulae, cues for non-conventionalized implicational impoliteness,conversational patterns, and other cues such as semantic prosody coming into play
in the co-text and context are taken into consideration.
Once the selection is completed, the insights gathered from the extracted instances
of impoliteness will be applied to analyze the data. Impoliteness in both languages
will be examined in regards to how impoliteness is triggered, how the progression
of impolite exchanges takes place, and how those instances of impoliteness are
resolved. Other considerations such as context-determined impoliteness,
intentionality of the speaker, and perception of the hearer will be discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615309/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2012 |
| Creators | Celebi, Hatice |
| Contributors | Isik-guler, Hale |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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