Pragmatics and prosody: the analysis of oral speech as a principle of linguistic pragmatics
... coherent discourse. It is shown that prosody is the main means of expressing pragmatic meanings in the languages of the world, and the expressed meanings are organized into a system that corresponds to the system of the prosodic means used. The study uses corpus and instrumental methods of analysis. The main material for analysis is the Russian language. The multimodal subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Russian Language was used as a corpus for the study. The primacy of prosody over segmental means ...
Quantitative corpus analysis of implicit evaluativeness: the case of ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ in Russian internet discourse
... complex (contentive and quantitative) corpus-discourse analysis is used. The source of language material is modern domestic media discourse. The direct material of the study is the contexts extracted from the newspaper corpora of the Russian National Corpus. At the preliminary, empirical level of the study, according to the dictionary data, it was found that the meanings of the verbs ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ cannot be distinguished, while the analysis of a large block of corpus ...
