A corpus-driven analysis of certainty stance adverbs: obviously, really and actually in spoken native and learner English
| dc.contributor.author | Pérez Paredes, Pascual | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bueno-Alastuey, María Camino | |
| dc.contributor.department | Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Giza eta Hezkuntza Zientziak | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-29T07:49:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-05T00:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the most frequent certainty adverbs in the extended LOCNEC (Aguadoet al. 2012) and their frequency and use in three datasets of the LINDSEI (Chinese, Germanand Spanish LINDSEI components). Our analysis of certainty adverbs yields a complexpicture. Obviously was fundamentally used by English speakers while really was usedsignificantly more frequently by German speakers. The frequency of actually was notsignificantly different between the English native speakers and two of the learner languagedatasets, but Germans also showed significant differences with the English and the othertwo non-native groups. NSs and Chinese frequencies of use for actually and really were notsignificantly different, which reinforces the notion that, quantitatively, these two groups ofspeakers approached the picture task in ways that diverged from the German and Spanishspeakers. An examination of the pragmatic contexts of use of the certainty adverbsrevealed that both NSs and NNSs restricted their semantic choice to classic epistemicmeanings with few instances of more complex pragmatic meanings. However, the positionof those adverbs was different in the English data. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the University of Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme 2015/16 Round 2, 'Adverbs in spoken language: A corpus-based analysis of learner and native-speakers' ( GABB007562 ). We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments. | en |
| dc.embargo.lift | 2019-12-05 | |
| dc.embargo.terms | 2019-12-05 | |
| dc.format.extent | 28 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.11.016 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0378-2166 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/33740 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 140, January 2019, Pages 22-32 | en |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.11.016 | |
| dc.rights | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Spoken English | en |
| dc.subject | Native speaker | en |
| dc.subject | Non-native-speakers | en |
| dc.subject | Certainty adverbs | en |
| dc.subject | Pragmatic meanings | en |
| dc.title | A corpus-driven analysis of certainty stance adverbs: obviously, really and actually in spoken native and learner English | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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