CORPUS PRAGMATICS – A NEW BRANCH OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The article is devoted to corpus pragmatics as a new branch of corpus linguistics that combines quantitative methods of language data analysis with qualitative approaches of pragmatics. Thanks to the development of computer-based text processing methods and the expansion of electronic corpora, it has become possible to study pragmatic phenomena in large amounts of data, which allows obtaining more reliable results than traditional intuitive or experimental approaches.
The work covers the history of corpus linguistics – from the creation of the Brown Corpus to modern multimodal and specialised corpora, as well as the main stages of the formation of pragmatics as a science. The relationship between the language form and its pragmatic function is analysed, which is one of the key issues in corpus analysis. The methods of corpus pragmatics, such as concordance analysis, collocation and frequency pattern analysis, as well as the use of annotated corpora for automated detection of speech acts and discourse markers are considered. Examples of the analysis of pragmatic units based on the general corpus of the Ukrainian language and the author’s own small corpus of German-language texts are presented.
Prospects for further development of corpus pragmatics, in particular, the use of artificial intelligence to improve methods of automatic analysis of language data, are outlined.