DISCOURSE FINAL PRESENTATION 2013.11TH JUNE

GROUP 6

Presenter: YOO JINHOON

Team members: YOO MIYEON

LEE SUJIN

MANAL UJAIMI

Examine of the preference of types of relatives and

analyze the discourse function of relatives in spoken

data of speech

OS - type = S V O [ R P V O ]

OO - type = S V O [ R P S V ]

SS - type = S [ R P V O ] V O

SO - type = S [ R P S V ] V O

RRC : Restrictive Relative Clause

NRRC : Non Restrictive Relative Clause

Table1. Frequency of occurrence of relative clauses

Who Whose Whom Which That Zero Total

Type RRC NRRC RRC NRRC RRC NRRC RRC NRRC RRC NRRC

Tokens 95 117 4 3 10 6 28 169 181 - 16 629

Table2-1. Frequency of occurrence of RC according to the functional

relation between the antecedent and the relative pronoun

Frequency of RRC (334 tokens)

Type Who Whom Which That Zero Total

SS 22 - 5 21 - 48

SO - - 1 8 4 13

OO - 5 7 60 10 82

OS 81 - 13 93 - 187

Frequency of NRRC (295 tokens)

Type Who Whom Which That Zero Total

SS 29 - 12 - - 41

SO - - 5 - - 5

OO - 4 34 - - 38

OS 96 - 112 - - 208

Table2-2. Frequency of occurrence of RC according to the functional

relation between the antecedent and the relative pronoun

To find out 100 tokens of relative clauses from the official speech of Hillary

Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, John Edward, Martin Luter King,

Steve Jobs, and Park Geunhe

To survey the frequency and characteristics of relative clauses

according to the 4 types

such as OS, OO, SS, and SO, and the usage of RRC and NRRC

Table.1 Frequency of occurrence of relative clauses

who Whose Whom Which that zero

Type RRC NRR

C

RRC NRR

C

RRC NRR

C

RRC NRR

C

RRC NRR

C

Toke

ns26 16 1 - - - 7 17 34 - 12

Total: 121 tokens

Table. 2-1 Frequency of occurrence of relative clauses

Frequency of occurrence of RRC

Type Who Whom Which That Total

OS 18 - 1 31 50

OO - - 2 - 2

SS 8 - 3 3 14

SO - - 1 - 1

Table. 2-2 Frequency of occurrence of relative clauses

Frequency of occurrence of NRRC

Type Who Whom Which That Total

OS 13 - 9 - 22

OO - - 1 - 1

SS 3 - 7 - 10

SO - - - - -

There were a lot of OS-type in both speech and news

reports.

• OS – type (72%)

-As a spoken English, it tends to avoid interrupting the flow

of sentence by occurring subordinate clauses

- End – weight principle

Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to

get there.

(Steve Jobs Speech in Stanford University RRC SS – type )

My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was

admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for

others.

(Bill Gates Harvad Commencement NRRC SS – type )

…And here I was spending all of the money

my parents had saved in their entire life.

…It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back

it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

(Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford University)

DISCOURSE FINAL PRESENTATION 2013.11TH JUNE