Editors’ introduction

Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis

Authors

  • Maite Taboada Simon Fraser University
  • Susana Doval Suárez Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain
  • Elsa González Álvarez Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v6i1-3.1

Keywords:

constructive linguistics, discourse analysis, comparative linguistics

Abstract

The present volume offers a collection of original contributions to the study of languages in contrast from discourse, corpus, and functional perspectives. The papers were presented at the 6th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, held in Berlin September 29th –October 3rd, 2010, in the context of two panels: ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive linguistics’ (organized by Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University and María de los Angeles Gómez-González, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), and ‘Contrastive linguistics, corpus analysis and annotation’ (organized by Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Erich Steiner, Universität des Saarlandes).

Author Biographies

  • Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University

    Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She holds MA and PhD degrees from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and an MSc in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Maite works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics.

  • Susana Doval Suárez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain

    Susana Doval Suárez is a tenured Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a BA and a PhD in English Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Susana teaches courses in phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax. Her area of interest is second language learning, in particular acquisition of orthography and discourse competence.

  • Elsa González Álvarez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain

    Elsa González Álvarez is a tenured Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a BA and a PhD in English Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Elsa teaches courses in morphology and syntax , in addition to postgraduate courses in second language acquisition and methodology in linguistic research. Elsa’s PhD thesis was on lexical innovation in the interlanguage of second language learners, an area in which she has also published a book and several articles.

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Taboada, M., Doval Suárez, S., & González Álvarez, E. (2012). Editors’ introduction: Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 6(1-3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v6i1-3.1