OLAC Discourse Type Vocabulary

Copyright © 2006 Heidi Johnson (University of Texas at Austin) and Helen Aristar Dry (Eastern Michigan University) . This material may be distributed and repurposed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Discourse Type
   • drama
   • formulaic_discourse
   • interactive_discourse
   • language_play
   • oratory
   • narrative
   • procedural_discourse
   • report
   • singing
   • unintelligible_speech

References

1. Introduction

The Discourse Type extension of the Type element is used to describe the content of a resource as representing discourse of a particular structural type. It will typically be used when the resource is itself an object of study, as, for example, when the resource is a primary text. So it will usually occur in conjunction with the Linguistic Data Type extension. For example, a narrative text would be described as both a primary text (OLAC Linguistic Type) and a narrative (OLAC Discourse Type).

2. Discourse Type

Each term in the controlled vocabulary is described in one of the following subsections. The heading gives the encoded value for the term that is to be used as the value of the code attribute of the "OLAC-Discourse-Type" extension of the Type metadata element [OLAC-MS]. Under the heading, the term is described in four ways. Name gives a descriptive label for the term. Definition is a one-line summary of what the term means. Comments offers more details on what the term represents. Examples may also be given to illustrate how the term is meant to be applied.

drama

formulaic_discourse

interactive_discourse

language_play

oratory

narrative

procedural_discourse

report

singing

unintelligible_speech

References