In search of the spoken word in Spanish written diachronic corpora: A comparison with English corpora Cover Image

En busca de lo hablado en lo escrito en los corpus diacrónicos del español: una comparativa con los corpus anglosajones
In search of the spoken word in Spanish written diachronic corpora: A comparison with English corpora

Author(s): Paula Rodríguez Puente
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Language acquisition
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: diachronic corpora of Spanish; diachronic corpora of English; spokenness; writtenness; colloquial language

Summary/Abstract: The present work analyses the diachronic corpora of Spanish available to date, paying especial attention to the scarce representation of the spoken language in them. Although it is true that the creation of diachronic corpora of Spanish has progressed significantly over the last forty years, there is still room for improvement, especially as regards peninsular Spanish, as well as the inclusion of documents that allow diatopic, diaphasic and diastratic analyses from the diachronic perspective. This piece of research provides data from three English diachronic corpora along these lines, which might be taken as a point of departure for the creation of similar tools in Spanish.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 89-127
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Spanish