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This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person
references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a
discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns
and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This
marks a timely contribution to corpus linguistics, as many linguists
are choosing to work with empirical data. Corpus based approaches have
many advantages and are useful in the comparison of different
languages as well as varieties of the same language, but what is often
overlooked in such comparisons is the genre of language under
examination. As this case study shows, genre is an important factor in
interpreting patterns and distributions of forms.
The book
also contributes toward theories of anaphora, referentiality and
Preferred Argument Structure. It is relevant for scholars who work
with referentiality, genre differences, third person references, and
interactional linguistics, as well as those interested in Spanish
morphosyntax.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.
Introduction
Chapter 2. Research questions
Chapter 3. Data
Chapter 4. Coding
Chapter 5.
Discourse referentiality
Chapter 6. Linguistic patterning
of referents
Chapter 7. Linguistic patterns of
non-referential expressions
Chapter 8. Genre
differences
Chapter 9. Conclusions
References
Appendix
Index