20.769, Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Quaglio - Socioling:Friginal

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Subject: 20.769, Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Quaglio - Socioling:Friginal

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1)
Date: 05-Mar-2009
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Television Dialogue: Quaglio

2)
Date: 05-Mar-2009
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: Friginal

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:22:40
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Television Dialogue: Quaglio

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Title: Television Dialogue 
Subtitle: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 36

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2036 

Author: Paulo Quaglio

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027290441 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027290441 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027223104 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027223104 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00

Abstract:

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area:
television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the
American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation.
Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation
portion of the Longman Grammar Corpus provide the data for this
corpus-based investigation, which combines Douglas Biber's multidimensional
methodology with a frequency-based analysis of close to 100 linguistic
features. As a natural offshoot of the research design, this study offers a
comprehensive description of the most common linguistic features
characterizing natural conversation. Illustrated with numerous dialogue
extracts from Friends and conversation, topics such as vague,
emotional, and informal language are discussed. This book will be an
important resource not only for researchers and students specializing in
discourse analysis, register variation, and corpus linguistics, but also
anyone interested in conversational language and television dialogue.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:22:53
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: Friginal

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Title: The Language of Outsourced Call Centers 
Subtitle: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics   34  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2034 

Author: Eric Friginal

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027289797 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027289797 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027223081 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
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Abstract:

The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore
a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and
communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines
and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to
conduct a corpus-based register comparison between outsourced call center
interactions, face-to-face American conversations, and spontaneous
telephone exchanges; and to study the dynamics of cross-cultural
communication between Filipino call center agents and American callers, as
well as other demographic groups of participants in outsourced call center
transactions, e.g., gender of speakers, agents' experience and performance,
and types of transactional tasks. The research design relies on a number of
analytical approaches, including corpus linguistics and discourse analysis,
and combines quantitative and qualitative examination of linguistic data in
the investigation of the frequency distribution and functional
characteristics of a range of lexico/syntactic features of outsourced call
center discourse.

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Cross-Cultural Communication
                     Discourse Analysis

Written In: English  (eng)

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