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This study is exploratory and empirical in nature, and is based on two corpora of the reality television show The Voice , one in Chinese and the other in English. The corpus is spoken and naturally occurring because VL/EL is particularly prevalent in spoken language (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 2010; Carter & McCarthy, 1997; Channell, 1994, p. 197) and natural language is typically representative of EL patterns (Zhang , 2015). The analysis focuses on how and why elasticity is manifested, to reveal how interlocutors use EL and how utterances are stretched to effectively deal with situations.
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Zhang, G., Parvaresh, V. (2019). Methodology. In: Elastic Language in Persuasion and Comforting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28460-2_3
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