Lavid López, María JuliaMoratón Gutiérrez, LaraGomez Gonzalez, María de los AngelesMackenzie, Lachlan J.2024-01-312024-01-312018Lavid, 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: 0922978-9-0272-0141-610.1075/pbns.296.04lavhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97003This 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.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/book parthttps://www.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.296.04lavhttps://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.296.04lavmetadata only accessFilología57 Lingüística