[Corpora] [Corpora-List] Need help locating suitable corpus

[Roland Bluhm]

Dear list,

I am looking for a corpus of spontaneous spoken English (in any of its 
varieties, but with first language speakers) with discourse likely to 
contain causal reasoning. The perfect corpus for my purposes would 
consist of something like transcripts from telephone hotline 
conversation, where users and operators would try to establish the 
reason for some technical fault over the phone. (The typical situation 
could well start with "Have you tried turning it on and off?".) However, 
that is only an idea. Presumably, any argumentative context would 
suffice for my purposes. I've looked at a number of articles with 
overviews but could not access any of the candidate corpora to see 
whether they would fit the requirements (e.g. CANCODE, Longman, WSC).

Could anyone point me to a corpus?

Best wishes,
Roland Bluhm

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