Designing and building SCoPE²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English

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https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.08.01.04

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bilingual corpus, spoken corpus, L2 corpus, corpus design, corpus construction

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This paper presents the process of designing and building a bilingual spoken corpus in order to pragmatically analyse oral L2-English discourse produced by a group of Brazilian university students living in Ireland. It discusses some of the decisions made, challenges faced, and considerations taken while designing a do-it-yourself corpus with a theoretical framework grounded in Corpus Pragmatics. The main objective is to share the lessons learned by examining the steps of designing and building SCoPE², a bilingual spoken corpus, including the selection of participants, gathering data, and challenges in transcribing and coding spoken language with pragmatics in mind.

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2020-05-04

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Santos, G. (2020). Designing and building SCoPE²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 8(1), 49–64. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.08.01.04

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020): Research in Corpus Linguistics

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