From synchrony to diachrony : Stance constructions in computer-mediated and spoken discourse

TY - CONF

T1 - From synchrony to diachrony : Stance constructions in computer-mediated and spoken discourse

AU - Pöldvere, Nele

AU - Paradis, Carita

AU - Glynn, Dylan

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part of the talk I will present a study that looks at the use of epistemic and evidential stance verbs on an online bulletin board. With the help of quantitative corpus techniques, I expect to find support to the hypothesis that epistemic and evidential stance verbs are important markers of social status in such communities. In the second part of the talk I will turn to spoken discourse and propose an upcoming study that would deal with the grammaticalization of epistemic and evidential complement-taking predicates and their functional characteristics in spoken British English.

AB - This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part of the talk I will present a study that looks at the use of epistemic and evidential stance verbs on an online bulletin board. With the help of quantitative corpus techniques, I expect to find support to the hypothesis that epistemic and evidential stance verbs are important markers of social status in such communities. In the second part of the talk I will turn to spoken discourse and propose an upcoming study that would deal with the grammaticalization of epistemic and evidential complement-taking predicates and their functional characteristics in spoken British English.

KW - Epistemicity

KW - social status

KW - grammaticalization

KW - corpus linguistics

M3 - Paper, not in proceeding

T2 - Journée d’étude du groupe LECSeL, Phonologie - Acquisition et Discours - Constructions

Y2 - 29 November 2014

ER -