9 Discourse markers and quantitative corpus linguistics

Crible, Ludivine;Degand, Liesbeth
(2024) Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance — ISBN: [9783110711110], p. 257-280, published

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From syntactic categories to prosodic profiles and pragmatic functions, corpus- linguistic methods have been widely used to document the many facets of discourse markers in a variety of contexts. The focus of this chapter is on quantitative studies of DMs, where the aim is to observe robust tendencies of distribution, patterning, and variation, either as a class or for individual members of the category. We then present the results of a quantitative categorical study of DMs on the basis of a multi-genre corpus of spoken French, where we draw attention to the relation between DM function and DM source syntactic category. Thus, we show that corpus linguistics is a reliable method not only for empirical purposes but also with a theoretical goal, addressing definition and categorization issues.
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Crible, L., & Degand, L. (2024). 9 Discourse markers and quantitative corpus linguistics. In Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Jacqueline Visconti (ed.), Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance (p. p. 257-280). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711202-009