Corpus-based Approaches to Pragmatics

Abstract

This article explores corpus-based approaches to pragmatics, emphasizing how empirical language data supports the analysis of speech acts, politeness, implicature, stance, and discourse markers. Corpus linguistics provides objective tools for identifying pragmatic patterns across large datasets, enabling researchers to observe authentic language use in different social and cultural contexts. The article highlights key methodologies such as corpus annotation, concordancing, and frequency analysis, and discusses their implications for teaching, translation, and intercultural communication. It also reviews challenges related to context interpretation, annotation reliability, and multimodal pragmatics.