Data Analysis
Information Structure in Spoken English - A Systemic Functional Linguistics View - Gerard O'Grady
Gerard O'Grady [+]
Cardiff University
Gerard O'Grady is a professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
Description
The model will be tested and revised by examining spoken data. This will be a contextualised and qualitative analysis and while I will employ corpora such as IVIE and London-Lund (hopefully version 2) as well as other extracts of speech from a range of genres I will not employ corpus linguistic methods. This is because I am uninterested in frequency but am rather interested in how speakers in different contexts negotiate their common understandings. To study I need extended extracts accompanied by relevant sound files from different genres. This chapter will show how speakers can if needed manipulate information structure at the scales of (i) identification/activation and (ii) establishing common ground.