Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts
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Julia Lavid [1] ; Lara Moratón [1]
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[1] Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores, Universidad Complutense, Spain
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- Localización: The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction / coord. por María Angeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 2018, ISBN 978-90-272-0141-6, págs. 75-107
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This chapter reports on the contrastive analysis of interpersonal discourse markers (lDMs) in a sample of English and Spanish newspaper texts in three genres: news reports, editorials and letters to the editor. The sample was divided into a training dataset of eighteen (English-Spanish) comparable texts and a larger dataset of 220 texts, divided into 60 news reports, 60 editorials and 100 letters to the editor. Following the methodology of Hovy & Lavid (2010), we present a preliminary annotation scheme validated by an inter-annotation agreement study. We then present the results of annotating the larger dataset, which reveals genre-related and language-specific variation in the distribution of ID Ms in these newspaper genres. We discuss and provide some possible explanations for the results obtained.
