1. DISCOURSE FINAL PRESENTATION 2013.11TH JUNE
GROUP 6
Presenter: YOO JINHOON
Team members: YOO MIYEON
LEE SUJIN
MANAL UJAIMI
2.
3. Examine of the preference of types of relatives and
analyze the discourse function of relatives in spoken
data of speech
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
ns
26 16 1 - - - 7 17 34 - 12
Total: 121 tokens
10. 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
11. 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 - - - - -
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13. 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
14. 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 )
15. …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)
