Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

The Linguistic Construction of Certainty

Fitzgerald, Chris

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2022

160

Dura

Inglês

9781032224756

15 a 20 dias

476

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Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Oral History and Corpus Linguistics

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Selecting an archive

1.3 Corpus linguistics, historical texts and oral history

1.4 The oral history interview

1.5 Studies of orality in historical texts

1.6 Structure of the book

Chapter Two: The Bureau of Military History: themes and characteristics

2.1 The creation of the Bureau of Military History
2.2 The question of reliability
2.3 Memory
2.4 The language of the Bureau of Military History archive
2.5 Autobiography and military discourse
2.6 Speaking of spokenness
2.7 Transcription

Chapter Three: Constructing the corpus of Irish historical narratives

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Representativeness and corpus size
3.3 Text selection
3.4 Data processing
3.5 Conclusion

Chapter Four: General characteristics of the corpus of Irish historical narratives

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Investigating spokenness
4.3 Characteristics of COIHN: single-word items
4.4 Characteristics of COIHN: multi-word units
4.5 Conclusion

Chapter Five: Commitment to truth: mental process verbs

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Truth
5.3 Hedging and commitment to truth
5.4 Epistemic modality and evidentiality
5.5 Mental process verbs and commitment to truth
5.6 Conclusion

Chapter Six: Commitment to truth: expectation markers

6.1 Introduction
6.2 Adverbs of certainty and actuality
6.3 Conclusion

Chapter Seven: Bringing together corpus linguistics and oral history

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Corpus linguistics and oral history archives
7.3 Considering context
7.4 Final reflection

Appendices

Index
Oral History;Epistemic Modality;Oral History Archive;Expectation Markers;FLC;Corpus Tools;National Library;Cl;Linguistics Researchers;Mental Process Verbs;BNC;Oral History Documents;Black English;Black English Vernacular;UK Parliamentary Debate;Oral History Interview;Reference Corpora;Hibernian Bank;Modal Expressions;Frequent Items;Oral History Testimonies;Oral History Projects;Cambridge International Corpus;VFW;Corpus Size