An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish.
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doaj-09b27defb398485da27cd161c498ae502020-11-25T03:35:16ZengUniversidad Politécnica de ValenciaRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas1886-24381886-62982012-07-0171375010.4995/rlyla.2012.1123An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish.Irina Argüelles ÁlvarezAlfonso Muñoz Muñoz<em><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-It; font-size: xx-small;"><em><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-It; font-size: xx-small;"><p>The aim of this paper is to study the use of Spanish and English in the micro-blogging social network Twitter from a contrastive point of view. A quantitative research methodology is applied in order firstly, to identify specific common characteristics of language, organization and content in the medium and secondly, to find eventual differences in the use of a particular language. To carry out the experiment, two corpora were constructed using language data from Twitter, one in Spanish with a total number of 4,027,746 words and another with similar characteristics in English with a total number of 4,655,992 words. From the results obtained, the conclusion is that there are a number of very general discourse and organizational features common to the two corpora under study. It is also concluded that there are some particular characteristics which differentiate the use of English and Spanish in the medium.</p></span></em></span></em>http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/1123Twitter, contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics |
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Irina Argüelles Álvarez Alfonso Muñoz Muñoz An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas Twitter, contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics |
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An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. |
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An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. |
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An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. |
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An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. |
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An insight into Twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in English and Spanish. |
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insight into twitter: a corpus based contrastive study in english and spanish. |
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Universidad Politécnica de Valencia |
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Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas |
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1886-2438 1886-6298 |
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2012-07-01 |
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<em><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-It; font-size: xx-small;"><em><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStd-It; font-size: xx-small;"><p>The aim of this paper is to study the use of Spanish and English in the micro-blogging social network Twitter from a contrastive point of view. A quantitative research methodology is applied in order firstly, to identify specific common characteristics of language, organization and content in the medium and secondly, to find eventual differences in the use of a particular language. To carry out the experiment, two corpora were constructed using language data from Twitter, one in Spanish with a total number of 4,027,746 words and another with similar characteristics in English with a total number of 4,655,992 words. From the results obtained, the conclusion is that there are a number of very general discourse and organizational features common to the two corpora under study. It is also concluded that there are some particular characteristics which differentiate the use of English and Spanish in the medium.</p></span></em></span></em> |
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Twitter, contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics |
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