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A mathematical model for the analysis of variation in discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2002

JESÚS ROMERO TRILLO
JESÚS ROMERO TRILLO
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Abstract

The present article discusses the notion of variation in discourse as an essential characteristic of language and the linguistic parameters that can be used for its study. The article describes the different traditions in the study of variation and places special emphasis on the role of prosodic analysis in the study of spoken discourse. The study explores the use of discourse markers in the London-Lund Corpus and describes their linguistic variation by introducing the notion of APPROPRIATENESS. This notion, which combines the quantitative and qualitative presence of elements in discourse, is based on a mathematical index that can describe discourse variation with a sound systematic criterion.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , November 2001 , pp. 527 - 550
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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