Speech Acts Annotation for Business Meetings  

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Seto, Andy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 9 no. 2 (2013), page 119-147.
Topik: business meeting; corpus linguistics; pragmatics; speech acts; spoken discourse
Fulltext: 119-147.pdf (541.41KB)

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With the advancement of information and communication technology, the study of speech acts is not only restricted to language philosophers but includes researchers who are interested in the study of speech acts in conversational corpora (Archer, Culpeper, & Davies, 2008; Cheng, 2009; Cheng & Tsui, 2009; Cheng & Warren, 2005, 2006; Jucker, 2009; Seto, 2009, 2010). Other researchers have attempted to develop software that can automatically identify speech acts from corpus data, resulting in annotated corpora in specific domains for different tasks (Allen and Core 1997; Bunt, 2009, 2011; Carletta et al., 1997; Dhillon et al, 2004; Geertzen, Petukhova, & Bunt, 2007; Stiles, 1992; Stolcke et al., 2000; Weisser, 2003). In this paper I present an attempt to annotate speech acts in business meetings in the business sub-corpus of the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic) (HKCSE (Prosodic)) with the aid of a computer-mediated program SpeechActConc designed by Chris Greaves for the analysis of the annotated corpus data. SpeechActConc is capable of automatically identifying annotated speech acts in a corpus, displaying information about each speech act and concordancing speech acts, listed by frequency and sorted by co-occurring or co-selected speech acts to the right and left of the centred speech acts. It can also automatically find 2, 3, or 4 speech act co-occurrences (Cheng, Greaves, & Warren, 2005, 2006; Cheng, Greaves, Sinclair, & Warren, 2009). I will analyze the speech acts in the annotated corpus to explore the use and patterns of speech acts in business meetings in Hong Kong to find out the relative frequencies of occurrence of different speech acts in business meetings, to explore the predictable sequencing patterns of speech acts, to identify the characteristic lexical-grammatical patterns or linguistic realizations of different speech acts, and to put forward some possible implications for ESP teaching.

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