Request markers in dramadata from the Corpus of Irish English

  1. Fátima Faya Cerqueiro 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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    Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

    Ciudad Real, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05r78ng12

Book:
Las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones: presente y futuro en el análisis de corpus: Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus
  1. María Luisa Carrió Pastor (ed. lit.)
  2. Miguel Ángel Candel Mora (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia = Universitat Politècnica de València

ISBN: 978-84-694-6225-6

Year of publication: 2011

Pages: 535-542

Congress: Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus (3. 2011. Valencia)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

In the Late Modern English period there was a change in the main courtesy marker used in polite requests, from pray, the former marker, to please, which still is the default marker in Present-day English. Drama texts are considered very useful for the study of pragmatic features due to their dialogic interaction, and therefore the analysis of a drama corpus may yield interesting results regarding the shift and the evolution of these forms. Courtesy markers pray and please, together with their verbal structures will be examined in the drama section of the Corpus of Irish English, which covers the whole Late Modern English period.

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