THE SMALLEST DISCOURSE UNITS AND THE MOST FREQUENT STRUCTURES IN COLLOQUIAL CONVERSATION

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  • Lidia Latorre García Universitat de València

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https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v8i1.13323

Keywords:

discourse units, subact, information structure, colloquial conversation

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the distribution of linguistic information in colloquial Spanish conversation, by analysing the smallest discourse unit: the subact (Briz y Grupo Val.Es.Co., 2003, Grupo Val.Es.Co., 2014). Subacts deal with the distribution of information and distinguish between propositional and procedural contents. In this study, three spontaneous conversations were segmented into a total of 621 acts and 1188 subacts. The most frequent patterns of occurrence have been extracted and the relationship between the different types of subacts was analysed. The results show that single acts are the most frequent pattern in colloquial Spanish conversation and that acts are usually started with procedural content.

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2018-12-18

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Latorre García, L. (2018). THE SMALLEST DISCOURSE UNITS AND THE MOST FREQUENT STRUCTURES IN COLLOQUIAL CONVERSATION. Normas, 8(1), 10–24. https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v8i1.13323
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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018)

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