TY - JOUR AU - Giovani Santos PY - 2020/05/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Designing and building SCoPEĀ²: A spoken corpus of Brazilian Portuguese and L2-English JF - Research in Corpus Linguistics JA - RiCL VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.32714/ricl.08.01.04 UR - https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/view/143 AB - 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 SCoPEĀ², a bilingual spoken corpus, including the selection of participants, gathering data, and challenges in transcribing and coding spoken language with pragmatics in mind. ER -