32.718, Media: Publication of the CorpAGEst Corpus - Free Access on Ortolang

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-718. Thu Feb 25 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.718, Media: Publication of the CorpAGEst Corpus - Free Access on Ortolang

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:49:21
From: Catherine Bolly [catherinebolly at hotmail.com]
Subject: Publication of the CorpAGEst Corpus - Free Access on Ortolang

 
The CorpAGEst project - ‘A corpus-based multimodal approach to the pragmatic
competence of the elderly’ - aims to establish the verbal and gestural profile
of very old people, looking at their pragmatic competence in real-world
settings (Bolly & Boutet, 2018). The corpus data consist of semi-directed,
face-to-face interviews between an adult and a very old subject (75 y. old and
more) that were audio-video recorded, transcribed and aligned to the sound
signal. All participants are native-speakers of French and healthy persons,
that is, without any a priori major injury or cognitive impairment.

The originality of the method – compared to existing multimodal models – lays
in its integrative and comprehensive approach, which tends to reach a maximum
exhaustivity, systematicity and interoperability between modes and languages.
It also adopts an extended view of pragmatics by pushing the boundaries of the
so-called ‘pragmatic units’ at their lower limit in speech (including, among
others, filled pauses and breathtaking) and gesture (including, among others,
adaptors and beats). The two-step annotation procedure has been developed to
avoid interpretative bias at every level of analysis: starting from a
mono-modal approach to spoken and gestural data, respectively – which is based
on the description of linguistic or physiological parameters (e.g. syntactic
position of discourse markers, physical configuration of the hand), the
analysis then moves to a multimodal functional annotation taking the overall
context of interaction into account. The annotation procedure required
selecting and sampling the primary audio and video sources.

Contextual independent variables are part of the corpus design, such as the
environment type (private vs. residential home), the social tie between the
participants (familiar vs. unknown interviewer), and the task type (focusing
on past events vs. present-day life). Metadata also provide information about
the interaction situation (e.g., date, place, duration, quality of the
recordings), the interviewer and the interviewee (e.g., sex, education,
profession, mother tongue, geographic origin, living environment, social tie
between interlocutors, subjective scale of life quality and health, scores
from clinical testing, etc.).

Access to the corpus data (audio, video and transcription), the annotation
guidelines, the annotated files and documentation on the Ortolang platform :
https://www.ortolang.fr/market/corpora/corpagest
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European



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