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Anderson, Wendy; Corbett, John – ELT Journal, 2010
This paper uses the interactional spoken data contained in the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) to investigate "friendly" language and shows how its principles can inform a model of language for learners of English as a second or foreign language. Pragmatic markers used in local speech varieties are in danger of being neglected in an…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Geographic Location, English (Second Language)
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Carter, Ronald – ELT Journal, 1998
Discusses the evolution and content of CANCODE, an English-language corpus under development at the University of Nottingham (England) designed to reflect current language use, and several related issues: whether the grammar currently taught should be changed to more closely correspond to common usage; whether the native speaker should be the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Data Collection, Databases, English