Working with Spanish Corpora [Hardcover]

The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters represent a range of research on Spanish using a number of different corpora drawn from, amongst others, research articles, student writing, formal conversation and technical reports. A variety of methodologies are brought to bear upon these corpora including multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis, latent semantics and lexical bundles. This in-depth analysis of using Spanish corpora will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics or Spanish language.

1. Introduction: Catching up with corpus linguistics: Register diversified studies from different corpora in different Spanish speaking countries: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valpara?so, Chile)
2. Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valpara?so, Chile)
3. Dimensions of register variation in Spanish: Douglas Biber and Nicole Tracy-Ventura (Northern Arizona University, USA)
4.Epistemic modality and academic spoken discourse: A pilot study for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Espa?ol Cient?fico de la Argentina): Guiomar Ciapuscio (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
5.Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs of Spanish: Omar Sabaj (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valpara?so, Chile)
6. Spoken and written varieties of future tense expressions: Mercedes Sedano (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela)
7. Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types: Giovanni Parodi and A?da Gramajo (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Valpara?so, Chile)
8. Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92: Carmen L?pez-Ferrero (Universitat Pompeu Fabló½