27.4033, Diss: A Multimodal Corpus-based Study on Illocutionary Force

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:01:07
From: Lihe 立鹤 Huang 黄 [cranehlh at tongji.edu.cn]
Subject: A Multimodal Corpus-based Study on Illocutionary Force

 
Institution: Tongji University 
Program: Foreign and Applied Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Lihe Huang

Dissertation Title: A Multimodal Corpus-based Study on Illocutionary Force 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan


Dissertation Director(s):
Yueguo Gu

Dissertation Abstract:

Adopting the technology of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics and the basic thought
of Simulative Modeling, this study takes illocutionary forces produced by
Chinese illiterates in live speech as the research object. The goal is to
discover how linguistic structures, prosodic features and gestures, which are
impacted by speakers' occurrent emotions and other factors interact with each
other to produce a variety of live illocutionary forces. The study is also
designed to describe the mechanism of the emergence of different Illocutionary
Force Indicating Devices (IFIDs). Additionally, possible influential factors
for such emergence are also explored. The whole study is based on the
self-constructed multimodal corpus of Situated Discourse and adopts an
interdisciplinary methodology.

The major findings can be concluded in the following three aspects:

- The multimodal nature of illocutionary force and the multi-dimensionality of
Illocutionary Force Indicating Devices. 
- Interaction pattern for emotional states, prosodic features and gestures. 
- Influence factors of live speech acts and Illocutionary Force Indicating
Devices. 

The major findings in this dissertation further extend the scope of Speech Act
Theory and develop the concept of IFID by using the novel methodology and new
linguistic data, though some limitations remain unsolved. Meanwhile, the
methodology of multimodal corpus approach, the perspective of Situated
Discourse, and the collection of illiterates' data to pragmatic study place
this study at the frontier of pragmatics. Further study could be conducted in
the following aspects: multimodal corpus-based study on the complete speech
acts (including perlocutionary acts), comparative study on the discourse of
literates and illiterates, multimodal corpus approach to human interaction and
further development on the corpus construction.

Hopefully, this study can provide some linguistic evidence for the development
of human-computer multimodal interaction, and a reference for further study of
pragmatic issues based on multimodal corpus.




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