Corpus Linguistics and Literary Analysis and Applied Linguistics

Comments welcome to the Kambaatisata Similative and equative demonstratives in Kambata by Yvonne Treis motivated me to read the Draft 2017-05-03 to pages 17 and as Kambaatan by birth and language very much interested in the analysis and explanations of syntax. I hope such papers by her appear again that I hopefully do more commenting.
Lapiso Segaro

The general aim of this paper is to describe the evolution of the linguistic expression of mitigation in the management of the family role face during a period of the Spanish social history: from the late nineteenth century to the sixties of the twentieth century. To this end, a corpus study of selected plays of the period is carried out, focusing on the directive speech acts uttered by characters that play family roles. The analysis is carried out following a mixed methodology that provides, on the one hand, the quantification of the frequency of the different linguistic mitigation strategies and the factors with which they are linked; on the other hand, the qualitative analysis allows to connect the behavior of the mitigation procedures with the face needs and the social effects generated. In order to do this, the interpretation is based on the sociological context of the moment. The results suggest that forms of address, justifying structures, indirect formulation and impersonalization are the most productive mitigation strategies in the utterance of directive speech acts between the family roles of the corpus in this period. Likewise, these procedures are found to be placed at the service of the projection of family relations in which, although the hierarchies are respected, the vertical component gives way to more horizontal relations based on proximity each time

The inherent ability of taboo language to convey emotional intensity, and its recurrence in daily interactions in Irish English seem to be insufficient to garner enough academic attention, as very few studies have ‘dared’ analyze this feature (Farr and Murphy 2009; Murphy 2009; Clancy 2016), and even less have examined its use in fictionalized Irish English (FIrE).
This paper builds on a previous short-scale study of taboo language in FIrE, and takes Paul Howard’s critically acclaimed Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series as representative of contemporary, Dublin English (DubE) orality. The aim of the paper, therefore, is to study the development of taboo language in Howard’s FIrE through a quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis of five of his novels. In doing so, this paper will determine whether it consistently enregisters an authentic portrayal of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic functions this linguistic feature has in spoken DubE.