Pero, Bueno, Pues: Testing new methodological approaches for the identification and disambiguation of discourse markers in spoken peninsular Spanish
Zoé Broisson
University of Louvain
In this presentation, I introduce a first attempt at testing the operationality of a corpus-based, cross-linguistic definition and taxonomy of discourse markers developed by Crible (2017) to reliably annotate spoken peninsular Spanish data. To this end, I manually extract and annotate 737 DMs in a subset of 8,300 words of semi-formal interviews sourced from the Spanish component of the Backbone corpus (Kurt 2012). Using a step-wise annotation procedure inspired by Scholman et al. (2016), I demonstrate that Crible's (2017) taxonomy constitutes a valuable tool for the annotation of spoken Spanish discourse markers, and I provide suggestions to further enhance its replicability. With this study, I hope to modestly contribute to a line of methodological research I believe opens promising avenues for the exchange of comparable research within the field of discourse analysis.