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19. Annotating Cohesive Ellipsis in an English-German Corpus


 
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1. Title Title of document 19. Annotating Cohesive Ellipsis in an English-German Corpus - Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Katrin Menzel; Germany
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) cohesion; cohesive devices; ellipsis; corpus linguistics; bilingual corpus
 
5. Subject Subject classification systemic functional linguistics
 
6. Description Abstract The purpose of this paper is the conceptualisation and cross-linguistic comparison of ellipsis when it is used as a cohesive device. This study is part of a larger DFG-funded research project on German-English contrasts in cohesion (GECCo) [note 1]. The bilingual GECCo corpus is a useful source of data to observe ellipsis patterns across written and spoken registers in order to generate and test various linguistic hypotheses. Bearing in mind the need for careful definition of ellipsis, it is argued here that a combination of a qualitative and quantitative approach will lead to insights that would otherwise be missed. Ellipsis can often be used in an unexpected way for various reasons (language economy, stylistic experimentation, ambiguity of meaning, e.g. in speeches, advertisements or fictional texts). Corpus methods allow us to study ellipses as they occur in real language use.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 15-Nov-2016
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26123
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.26123
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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