Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies
eBook - ePub

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

The Linguistic Construction of Certainty

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

The Linguistic Construction of Certainty

About this book

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools.

Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation.

Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Oral history and corpus linguistics
  11. 2 The Bureau of Military History: Themes and characteristics
  12. 3 Constructing the Corpus of Irish Historical Narratives
  13. 4 General characteristics of the Corpus of Irish Historical Narratives
  14. 5 Commitment to truth: Mental process verbs
  15. 6 Commitment to truth: Expectation markers
  16. 7 Bringing together corpus linguistics and oral history
  17. Appendix A: Summary of comparative corpora used
  18. Appendix B: 100 most frequent words in COIHN
  19. Appendix C: 100 most frequent three-word clusters in COIHN
  20. Appendix D: 3–4 word clusters containing remember in COIHN
  21. Appendix E: Occurrences of actually in sentence initial position
  22. Index