Issues to Consider In Constructing

a Corpus

• Machine translation
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• Dynamic Content
The Long Man Spoken and
Written English Corpus

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and

Written English (LGSWE) is a major study
of contemporary English, incorporating many
new and revealing findings, and should prove
to be an essential reference work for many
years to come.
Discourse Characteristics of
Conversational English

Conversation is actually the same as normal

conversation, the goal is to understand each
other and achieve their social interaction. One is
to avoid starting with assumptions about the
analysis. The phenomena that occur are entered
into the data by adjusting the order, structure
and coherence of the conversation.
Performance Phenomena of
Conversational Discourse

Most humorous activities invite non-standardized

inferences as the core of the humor. These genres
place us in a possible world and create a certain
distance from the everyday world that we can
process. Other humorous activities (for example,
parody) evoke additional meaning levels, using
framing procedures and drawing heavily on meta-
communication. Laughter in speech is an example of
this.