Working with Spanish Corpora

Giovanni Parodi is Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.

"[In this book] Parodi and company provide English language accounts of their research into Spanish corpora. For the first time readers from around the world who are unable to read Spanish have access to cutting edge studies of a variety of registers in one of the three main languages in the world.  The authors in this volume take their inspiration from Biber's multi-dimensional analysis (MDA).  Of particular interest here is the way in which Spanish factors resonate with and distinguish themselves from co-occurrence patterns in other languages.  Especially rewarding are the insightful discussions of the communicative purposes which motivate factors, drawing on the rich tradition of discourse analysis informing Latin American linguistic theory." Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

• 1. Introduction: Catching up with corpus linguistics: Register diversified studies from different corpora in different Spanish speaking countries: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)2. Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 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 Español Científico 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 Católica de Valparaíso, 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 Aída Gramajo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)8. Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92: Carmen López-Ferrero (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)9.Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus: René Venegas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)10.Lexical bundles in speech and writing: Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Douglas Biber, and Viviana Cortes (Northern Arizona University, USA and Iowa State University, USA)