A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SPOKEN AND WRITTEN-TO-BE-SPOKEN DISCOURSE

Authors

  • Javier Gómez Guinovart
  • Javier Pérez Guerra

Keywords:

Corpus linguistics, corpus-based analysis, spoken English and discourse analysis

Abstract

This paper constitutes an attempt to again some insight into the potential stylistic variables which exert some influence on the nature of spoken and written to be spoken English texts. By using evidence from c. 3 million words from the British National Corpus we apply Biber’s multidimensional model to both transcription of actual English productions and to written material intended to he uttered by a speaker. The starting point in this investigation has been the assumption that textual samples can he characterised in functional terms by placing them on scales determined by sets of co-occurring linguistic features. Such scales are subsequently associated with functional interpretations which are decided upon the examination of the significant linguistic features.

Author Biographies

Javier Gómez Guinovart

Facultade de Filoloxia e Traducción Universidade de Vigo

Javier Pérez Guerra

Facultade de Filoloxia e Traducción Universidade de Vigo

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