Analysing the use of vague language in spoken interlanguage: a corpus-based study of a group of Brazilian university students learning English as a second language

• Autores: Bárbara Malveira Orfanò
• Localización: Twenty years of learner corpus research: looking back, moving ahead / Sylviane Granger (ed. lit.), Gaëtanelle Gilquin (ed. lit.), Fanny Meunier (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-199-0, págs. 367-376
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper will look at the issue of vague language, and in particular at vague category markers (VCMs), comparing a learner corpus of a group of Brazilian university students with a sub-corpus from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. Fundamental to the analysis is the backdrop of research within the field of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. Analytical tools from the area of corpus linguistics will be employed, as well as insights from the areas of pragmatics, discourse analysis and conversation analysis. The analysis aims to determine the most prevalent forms present in the data and if their use and functions are the same by comparing and contrasting the VCMs.