Author: Santamaría García Carmen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN: 1569-9811|16|3|345-370
ISSN: 1384-6655
Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol.16, Iss.3, 2011-01, pp. : 345-370
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Abstract
This article illustrates the use of spoken corpora for a contrastive study of casual conversation in English and Spanish. It models an eclectic methodology for cross-linguistic comparison at the level of discourse, specifically of exchange structures, by drawing upon analytic resources from corpus linguistics (CL), conversation analysis (CA) and discourse analysis (DA). This combination of perspectives presents challenges and limitations which will be discussed and exemplified through a case study that explores agreement and disagreement sequences. English data have been retrieved from the