Academic literature on the topic 'Corpus Monolog'

Scholars see dialogue as the primary natural form of language communication; monologue is recognized as secondary to dialogue. The purpose of this article is to analyze the texts of the genre ‘Letter to the Editor’ (LTE) in terms of material presence in them of “the otherˮ as a signal of the dialogic category manifestation in the monologic text. The hypothesis is that in LTE texts “the other” – the addressee, vis-à-vis of the LTE subject – is not only implied, but actually materially, verbally explicated. The novelty of the study is determined by the choice of the approach, which makes the dialogic category overt at the level of not only the deep, but also of the superficial structure. The choice of research material and methods in this study is conditioned by M. Bakhtin’s understanding of dialogue as a universal property of speech. In monologic speech one is met with dialogue in the broader sense of the word, which may be understood as the mutual relationship, interaction between the position of the addresser and the addressee. The material for the research was taken from the corpus of texts assigned to the LTE genre and published by British daily periodicals, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Independent. LTE is an essential and integral part in the generic system of media discourse as it invites feedback from the recipient. In order to achieve the intended objective of this research project, the author identified dialogic markers in the monologic text at textual, grammatical and lexical levels, extrapolating distinctive linguistic features from the dialogic form of speech into the monologic form of speech. The study has shown that a wide range of endodialogic markers, from pretextual (morphological, syntactical, lexical) to textual (architectonic) levels, manifests the presence of “the otherˮ in the monologic text. The results of the study have theoretical significance for a number of related areas of modern linguistics and, above all, media discourse (in terms of projecting the institutional and role-specific aspects), linguistic genre studies (in relation to the genre-forming specificity of the addressee), linguistic pragmatics (the addressее factor in the light of situational conventions), etc. Practically, these research results may be used in teaching specialized courses of the university curricula.

The article is devoted to the description of the idiomatic potential of Russian colloquial speech, revealed on a voluminous corpus material. The observations and conclusions are based on the analysis of the material of two oral corps: Russian everyday speech (“One speech day”, mainly dialogues and polylogies of native speakers) and Russian monologue speech (“Balanced annotated text collection”). Both corps were created at St. Petersburg State University and allow multilevel analysis of both types of oral speech. In a broad sense, all the units that refer to idioms meet the criteria of stability, reproducibility, and also the integrity of the value of a unit, which cannot be reduced to the sum of the values of its components. As the analysis of the corpus material has shown, our speech is rich in such idioms: the maximum number of idioms per fragment of the record is 1.1% (the average share is 0.2–0.3%). For a minute of communication, the speaker (along with his interlocutors) is able to use up to 2 idioms. The article presents the results of the analysis of everyday Russian speech. The main array of idiomatics is not only the units recorded in dictionaries, but also colloquial neoplasms and everything that can be called the idiomatic potential of colloquial speech. A certain systematization of this potential is proposed in the article: (1) modifications (s polotencem napereves); (2) contamination (ni v koej zhizni); (3) occasional formations (golovu zakhlaml’at’ negativami); (4) generalized statements understandable to native speakers, but requiring comments in a foreign-language audience (kak razd l’ablondinok); (5) precedent texts, often modified (ikh jest ’u men’a); (6) speech formulas, or grammatical constructions-collocations (Pravda chto li?! pon’al net?); (7) prepositional-case combinations (forms-idioms) (bez nikakix). The criterion of idiomaticity in most cases can be the possibility of replacing a speech fragment with a unit-identifier.

The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi de Larry Tremblay (1995), oeuvre marquante de la dramaturgie québécoise des années quatre-vingt-dix, a fait l’objet de nombreuses études visant à dégager les spécificités de ce long monologue « in English ». Cette analyse jette un éclairage inédit sur une question très peu abordée dans les travaux portant sur l’ensemble du corpus dramatique québécois : l’inscription des référents du catholicisme. L’article montre comment cette oeuvre peut se lire comme une confession profondément travaillée par le registre de la culpabilité et comment le récit de rêve au coeur du monologue, par l’inscription des souvenirs renvoyant à l’époque du Canada français et par les intertextes liturgiques et bibliques qu’il déploie, donne à la confession de Gaston Talbot une résonance prophétique. Le passé catholique canadien-français et ses signifiants (refoulés) façonnent ainsi en profondeur l’énonciation au présent.

The visibility and recognition of Women playwrights in Spanish theater did not occur until the eighties after the conquests of feminist movements. For that reason, women playwrights explore in their works new ways of thinking about subjectivity. The monologue provides them with a way of exploring themselves and with a form of engaged theater. This textual corpus is studied in this article in a global way in order to contextualize feminist dramaturgies and in particular the dramatic proposals of Maribel Lázaro, who in 1986 wrote two monologues La fosa [The pit] and La defensa [The defense]. Therefore, we analyze the terminological problem around the concept of «monologue». Moreover, we reflect on the dramatic structure in which the denunciation, self-recognition and negation of the discourse of the female character coexist in a paradox that opens the path to a consolidation of the feminist theater in Spain.

This paper provides a corpus-based generic characterization of appointment-scheduling dialogues — a type of task-oriented conversation — by concentrating on the rhetorical and thematic choices made by the speakers that produce them. The analytical tools used for this study are Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), the notion of Theme as defined in Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Thematic Progression (TP) patterns. The results of the corpus analysis revealed a generic structure consisting of three clear stages: Opening, Task Performance and Closing, realized by characteristic thematic and rhetorical patterns. These patterns are interpreted functionally as indicative of the genre under study, providing linguistic evidence of the generic structure that characterizes this type of conversations. The paper also shows the usefulness of analytical tools such as RST and TP patterns, typically applied to written monologue, for the characterization of dialogic genres.

The paper explores the functions and distribution of questions in the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts, a 1.1 million-word corpus of pamphlets written between 1640 and 1740. Pamphlets are a highly interactive medium with a mostly persuasive function. Thus it is not surprising that pamphlet authors exhibit a critical and inquisitive attitude, which shows itself also in the explicit posing of questions. The questions can be sorted according to function into six major groupings: (i) introducing new information, (ii) provoking reader involvement, (iii) marking authorial emphasis, (iv) getting or focusing attention, (v) supporting the argumentation (backed by a number of conducive features), and (vi) exerting control. Of these, argumentation is clearly the dominant function, while reader involvement enhances the persuasive effect. Statistical analysis reveals questions to be more common in pamphlets, in particular highly contentious religious and political tracts, than in most other monologic texts.

Les années 80 en Angleterre représentent un âge d’or pour le théâtre féministe, qui vise à briser les tabous. L’article tente de cerner les qualités dramaturgiques et théâtrales nécessaires à la problématisation des enjeux. Il explore parallèlement les différents aspects du féminisme, comment ils sont représentés dans les exemples choisis, en prenant le monologue et le travail du corps pour fils conducteurs.

Abstract This article examines the use and functions of questions in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates from the perspective of comparative pragmatics. The research is based on a corpus of 200 utterances excerpted from transcripts of Latvian and Polish parliaments’ sittings from 2009. It uses the typology of questions in interaction developed by ILIE (1999). The paper suggests that differences in the frequency and functions of questions reflect different degrees of interactionality of a debate, which is a genre that combines monologic and dialogic features. On this basis, the discourse of Polish parliamentary debates is recognized as more interactional than its Latvian counterpart.

Individual speakers vary considerably in their rate of speech, their syntactic choices, and the organization of information in their discourse. This study, based on a corpus of monologue productions from native and non-native speakers of English and French, examines the relations between temporal fluency, syntactic complexity and informational content. The purpose is to identify which features, or combinations of features, are common to more fluent speakers, and which are more idiosyncratic in nature. While the syntax of fluent speakers is not necessarily more complex than that of less fluent speakers, it is suggested that they are able to deliver content more efficiently through a combination of less hesitant speech and of lexical and syntactic choices that allow them to package information more economically.