In:Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 123] 2025
► pp. 103–127
Chapter 5A local grammar approach to identifying speech act constructions
Published online: 8 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2Local grammar and construction grammar revisited
- 5.2.1Revisiting the concept of local grammar
- 5.2.2An introduction to construction grammar
- 5.2.3Why and how to identify speech act constructions?
- 5.3Local grammar and construction grammar approaches to speech act studies
- 5.3.1An overview of the local grammar approach to speech act studies
- 5.3.2An overview of the construction grammar approach to speech act studies
- 5.4Identifying apology constructions via the lens of local grammar
- 5.4.1A brief note on the data
- 5.4.2Local grammar patterns of apology in the Spoken BNC2014
- 5.4.3Generalising apology constructions from local grammar patterns of apology
- 5.4.4General discussion
- 5.5Summary
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