In:Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 123] 2025
► pp. 223–224
Subject index
Published online: 8 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.si
A
- adjective complementation pattern27
- apology
12, 13, 75, 87, 128,
140, 151, 176,
177–179
- local grammar of 14, 15, 24, 72, 74, 84, 87, 92, 95, 98, 100, 119, 183, 194, 195
- apology-making 20, 159, 173, 176
- apology construction 2, 13, 103, 104, 117, 120, 121, 124–126, 185
- apology marker 24, 76, 77, 92, 142, 170
- apologising construction 117–119, 185
- apologiser-apologising construction 118, 185
- Asian English 169, 177–179
- attenuation 131, 133, 151, 165, 176, 187
B
- behabitives 8, 66
C
- commissives 8, 46
- communicative function 13, 19, 21, 37, 40, 41, 43, 45, 95, 100, 101, 104, 182, 183, 189, 190, 193
- comparability 141, 157, 169, 130, 131, 134
- component labelling 22, 29, 44
- constructicon 113, 118, 120, 124
- construction 106, 108, 111, 122, 123, 185, 186
- construction grammar 32, 35, 36, 105, 106, 111, 120, 185
- contrastive speech act analysis 2, 15, 47, 110, 153, 157, 178
- conversational grammar 188, 189
- conventionalisation 29, 111, 112, 183
- corpus annotation46
- corpus linguistics 2, 4, 5
- corpus pattern analysis 32–34 ; see also CPA 33–34
- corpus pragmatics 6, 7, 97, 196
- culture 177, 178
- c-unit 50, 51, 54, 55, 60, 181
D
- data retrieval 22, 29, 44, 142
- declaratives 46, 66, 68
- delicacy 51, 52, 181
- diachronic comparison130
- diachronic speech act analysis 129, 130, 134, 152
- dialogue act52
- Dialogue Annotation and Research Tool 48, 53, 54, 181 ; see also DART 48, 53–55, 57, 58, 64, 67
- directives 8, 46, 67
E
- economy 29, 30, 45
- elaborated pattern 164, 167
- essential condition9
- evaluation
28, 37, 38
- local grammar of 26–28, 41
- evaluative language 25, 26, 41, 66
- exemplification
73, 88
- local grammar of 88, 90, 110
- exercitives 8, 66
- explicit apology 75, 141, 155, 169
- explicitness 176, 177
- expositives 8, 66
- expressives 8, 47, 66
F
- felicity condition 9, 67
- feminism 168, 187
- flexibility64
- forgiveness-seeking 93, 165, 176
- forgiveness-seeking construction 117, 185
- form-function correspondence64
- form-function mapping 34, 47, 60, 66, 68, 70, 71, 97, 107
- form-meaning pairing 36, 107, 112, 113, 122, 123
- form-to-function 7, 88
- formulaic apology 149, 166
- formulaic pattern164
- FrameNet32
- frame semantics 32, 33, 105
- function188
- function-based communicative grammar 180, 187–192, 196
- functional grammar 36, 37
- function-to-form7
G
- gender153
- general grammar 20, 21, 38–40
- grammar 188, 189, 191
- grammar pattern 3, 23, 25–28, 190
H
- high context culture178
- horizontal reading 5, 6
I
- ICE 169 ; see also International Corpus of English 169, 187
- IFID 7, 13, 24, 75, 97, 99, 132, 133, 135–137, 156, 169, 186 ; see also illocutionary force indicating device 7, 13, 75, 110, 132
- illocutionary act8
- intensification 176, 177
- intercultural speech act study 168, 169, 179, 187
J
- judgement
32, 33
- local grammar of 27, 32, 33
K
- keyed utterance59
L
- language189
- L2 speech act competence192
- language indigenisation 178, 179
- language pattern 25, 26, 28
- local grammar 1, 11, 17–22, 28, 29, 36, 38–40, 42–45, 60, 62, 64, 69, 74, 96–98, 100, 101, 104, 106, 120, 156, 178, 180, 182, 183, 185, 187, 190, 192, 193, 196
- local grammar annotation 14, 17, 41, 46, 47, 49, 58, 61–66, 68–71, 97, 136, 156
- local grammar of affect 18, 23, 26, 31
- local grammar of compliment31
- local grammar of definition 21, 25, 31, 37, 38, 39, 45, 66
- local grammar of disclaimer22
- local grammar of request 28, 31
- local grammar of thanking 24, 31
- local grammar pattern 105, 107, 114, 118, 134, 144, 182, 185, 195
- locutionary act8
- low context culture178
M
- metapragmatic expression 132–135
N
- natural language processing41
- negative politeness 149, 150
P
- pattern-meaning association 3, 118
- pattern-meaning combination 3, 105, 107, 122, 184, 185, 195
- perlocutionary act8
- phraseology 3, 11
- phraseological patterning3
- politeness 149, 150, 167, 176, 187
- positive politeness 149, 150
- pragmatic annotation 46, 47, 50, 51, 58, 65, 181
- pragmatic competence 72, 108, 192
- pragmalinguistic competence 72, 73
- pragmatic nativisation 178, 179
- pragmatic instruction 108, 192
- pragmatics 4, 5
- preparatory condition9
- propositional content condition9
R
- representatives 8, 46
- resonance142
- ritual48
S
- semantic completeness64
- semantic role 34–36, 42
- sex 153, 157, 166
- sex difference 153–156, 165, 167, 168, 178, 187
- SPeech Act Annotated Corpus 53 ; see also SPAAC 54, 55, 57, 58, 59
- SPICE-Ireland Annotation Scheme59
- sincerity condition9
- social expressions59
- sociopragmatic competence 72, 73
- specifying-the-addressee construction 118, 119, 185
- specifying-the-offense construction 118, 119, 185
- speech act
1, 8, 75, 129, 168,
193
- local grammars of 40, 44, 45, 47, 65, 71, 74, 87, 95–98, 100, 101, 107, 110, 126, 152, 180, 182–184, 186–188, 190–193, 195, 196
- speech act annotation 14, 46, 47, 50–54, 68–70, 180–182
- speech act construction 3, 12, 15, 17, 27, 44, 102–105, 107, 108, 109, 111–113, 116, 118, 120, 122–126, 185, 186, 195
- speech act taxonomy 10, 48, 53, 190
- speech act teaching 40, 45, 69, 71, 95, 98, 100, 101, 108, 113, 120, 123, 124, 182, 184, 186, 192, 193, 195
- speech act theory 8, 9, 42, 47, 68
- speech act type 47, 48, 111
- Spoken BNC1994 24, 75, 141, 142, 144, 147, 148, 157
- Spoken BNC2014 75, 113, 130, 141, 147, 148, 157
- spoken grammar 43, 188, 189
- substantives48
- systemic functional grammar 32, 37 ; see also SFG 32, 34, 38
T
- thanking 24, 138
- thematic role106
- transparency 29, 44
- transitivity 32, 34, 35
- transitivity analysis 34, 35, 37
V
- verdictives 8, 66
- vertical reading 5, 6
