<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080>Dear Chris, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080>All transcripts of the 152 speech events included in the Michigan
Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) have been coded for a number of
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080>pragmatic features that have pedagogical potential (28 features
altogether, including disagreement, sarcasm, positive/negative evaluation).
While the coded version of the corpus is not publicly available, you find a
chapter on the pragmatic coding and a table summarizing the coding results
in the MICASE Handbook (Rita C. Simpson-Vlach & Sheryl Leicher, 2006, Ann
Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press), see <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/MICASE-Handbook-Resource-Michigan-Academic/dp/0472030728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204566291&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/MICASE-Handbook-Resource-Michigan-Academic/dp/0472030728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204566291&sr=8-1</A>.
Hope this helps. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080>Best wishes... Ute </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=493053417-03032008><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS">***************************************************************************</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Dr. Ute Römer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Director of the Applied Corpus
Linguistics Unit<BR>English Language Institute<BR>University of
Michigan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Email: <A
href="mailto:uroemer@umich.edu"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS">uroemer@umich.edu</FONT></A><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">
<BR>Phone: +1 734 763 7133 </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Fax: +1 734 763 0369
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><A
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><A
href="http://www.uteroemer.com/">http://www.uteroemer.com</A>
<BR>MICASE: <A
href="http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm">http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">MICUSP: </FONT><A
href="http://www.micusp.org/"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS">http://www.micusp.org</FONT></A><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"> <BR>Generation 1.5: <A
href="http://gen15.micusp.org/">http://gen15.micusp.org/</A> </FONT><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"> <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><STRONG>Surface mail address:
<BR></STRONG>Dr. Ute Römer <BR>University of Michigan <BR>English Language
Institute <BR>500 E. Washington Street <BR>Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 <BR>USA
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=de dir=ltr align=left>
<HR tabIndex=-1>
<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> corpora-bounces@uib.no
[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>CRuehlemann@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 03, 2008 6:11
PM<BR><B>To:</B> CORPORA@UIB.NO<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] CL and
pragmatics<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000>
<DIV>Dear all,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'm looking for information on </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>- pragmatically annotated corpora and<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>- corpus linguistic research projects (ongoing or completed) on pragmatic
phenomena<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Thanks in advance for your help.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Chris</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>