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2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how speakers employ personal pronouns (we, you, I) in two types of monologic academic speech, undergraduate lectures and public lectures, through analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). Not only the frequency of instances of personal pronouns but also two linguistic environments were examined: words placed before and after the pronoun. The results show both common features and variations in the two types of academic speech. “You” was the most common personal pronoun in both undergraduate and public lectures. Variations seem to be related to the purpose of the speech and the relationship between the speaker and the audience.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how speakers employ personal pronouns (we, you, I) in two types of monologic academic speech, undergraduate lectures and public lectures, through analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). Not only the frequency of instances of personal pronouns but also two linguistic environments were examined: words placed before and after the pronoun. The results show both common features and variations in the two types of academic speech. “You” was the most common personal pronoun in both undergraduate and public lectures. Variations seem to be related to the purpose of the speech and the relationship between the speaker and the audience.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
  6. i. Variation and academic dialogue
  7. 1. Speaking professionally in an L2 5
  8. 2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech 33
  9. ii. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse
  10. 3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication 47
  11. 4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corpora 65
  12. iii. Dialogic variation and language varieties
  13. 5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation 79
  14. 6. Estonian emotional speech corpus 109
  15. 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English 123
  16. 8. “But that’s dialect, isn’t it?” 137
  17. II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse
  18. i. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora
  19. 9. Variation in the language of London newspapers 157
  20. 10. From letters to guidebooks 173
  21. 11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art 185
  22. 12. Analysing discourse in research genre 203
  23. ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change
  24. 13. The difference a word can show 223
  25. 14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language 239
  26. 15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary Japanese 255
  27. 16. It’s always the same old news! 269
  28. Name index 283
  29. Subject index 287
Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.21.06oka

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
  6. i. Variation and academic dialogue
  7. 1. Speaking professionally in an L2 5
  8. 2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech 33
  9. ii. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse
  10. 3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication 47
  11. 4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corpora 65
  12. iii. Dialogic variation and language varieties
  13. 5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation 79
  14. 6. Estonian emotional speech corpus 109
  15. 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English 123
  16. 8. “But that’s dialect, isn’t it?” 137
  17. II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse
  18. i. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora
  19. 9. Variation in the language of London newspapers 157
  20. 10. From letters to guidebooks 173
  21. 11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art 185
  22. 12. Analysing discourse in research genre 203
  23. ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change
  24. 13. The difference a word can show 223
  25. 14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language 239
  26. 15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary Japanese 255
  27. 16. It’s always the same old news! 269
  28. Name index 283
  29. Subject index 287
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