2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Modelling Linguistic Practices for Learners of German: A Data-driven Approach to Speech Act Sets and Speech Act Sequences
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18K00850
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | speech acts / corpus linguistics / linguistic patterns / German / pragmatics / corpus-driven / language education |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The result of the research project is a systematic exploration of the frequency of speech act indicating patterns in German. A corpus of 1.5 billion words from online discussion forums was compiled in order to answer the question of which linguistic patterns are used in German to perform certain speech acts. In total, the distribution of over 6000 different patterns was examined. The analysis resulted in: 1. a ranking of the patterns according to speech act types. 2. adjacency patterns of speech act indicating patterns within one utterance. 3. simple example sentences for each pattern selected on the basis of grammatical simplicity and simplicity of vocabulary.
The frequency of linguistic patterns that indicate speech acts could be calculated for the first time for German on the basis of a large corpus. This should help teachers and learners of German as a foreign language to select the linguistic patterns that are used most frequently in German.
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| Free Research Field |
corpus linguistics, language education
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The results of the extensive study are documented on the online platform basic-german.com and are part of a basic vocabulary for learners of German, which is published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
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