Pragmatics across time and space
From the use of language to language in use
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Talking Business
Posted on November 1, 2017 Leave a Comment
Most action in a business context is carried out through language and as such communication can be said to constitute the foundation of organisations. Language is not exclusively a medium through which we transmit information in both spoken and written form but it also contributes to our construction of identity and interpersonal relations. Consequently, language […]
Panel at IPra 2017 in Belfast
Posted on September 20, 2016 Leave a Comment
Knowing me and knowing you Reference and identity markers in public discourse organised by Minna Nevala, University of Helsinki and Ursula Lutzky, Vienna University of Economics and Business This panel studies the use of labelling in texts intended to be public, as reflected in their accessibility or distribution in the public domain. It approaches the […]
ESSE Book Award 2014
Posted on November 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
RESULTS OF THE ESSE BOOK AWARDS FOR 2014 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: Award in Category B: Lutzky, Ursula. Discourse Markers in Early Modern English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. The book is an extensive corpus-based study that offers a very thorough, systematic and clear analysis of three discourse markers (marry, well, why) in Early […]
eMargin as an annotation tool for narrative analysis
Posted on June 27, 2013 Leave a Comment
This week I’m at the International Conference on Narrative at Manchester Metropolitan University. I will be talking about Early Modern English witness depositions and their narrative structure. Basically, I am studying the depositions given by witnesses which were recorded by scribes in written form, often before the actual proceedings were held in court. Now, while […]
Stylistic analyses with WebCorp
Posted on April 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
WebCorp is a set of tools that allows the study of the world wide web as a corpus and while it was initially developed to fulfill exactly this function, it can do much more. In fact, it is an ideal means when it comes to carrying out stylistic studies. All that is needed is a text […]
A sociopragmatic study of surprise markers in Early Modern English
Posted on February 5, 2013 1 Comment
I have been invited to a panel about “The role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation and change” to be held at the i-Mean@UWE conference in Bristol, 18-20 April 2013. My panel contribution allows me to dig a bit deeper in the area of historical discourse marker research from a gender perspective. In one of my […]
Pragmatics across time and space 