RT Book, Section
T1 Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts
A1 Lavid López, María Julia
A1 Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara
A2 Gomez Gonzalez, María de los Angeles
A2 Mackenzie, Lachlan J.
AB This chapter reports on the contrastive analysis of interpersonal discourse markers (IDMs) 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 IDMs in these newspaper genres. We discuss and provide some possible explanations for the results obtained.
PB John Benjamins
SN 978-9-0272-0141-6
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97003
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97003
LA eng
NO Lavid, Julia and Moratón, Lara (2018): Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts. In Gómez González, M.A. and Lachlan, J. (eds), the Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Amsterdam, John Benjamins. pp. 75-108.  Serie: Pragmatics & beyond new series (P & bns) ; Volume 296, ISSN: 0922
DS Docta Complutense
RD 24 abr 2025