<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all,<br></div><div><br>A (not involved in corpus linguistics) college expressed his concerns to me about corpus linguistics, mainly the fact that he thought oral corpora are not really representative of spoken language, and that thus, results of investigations that use oral corpora are not really reliable as reflecting the wider picture of how people speak and use language. My question is whether there have been studies done about how representative are, say phone recordings, or semi-guided interviews, of actual spoken language. <br>
<br>I use oral corpora for my work but just assume that semi-guided interviews are somewhat representative of spoken language outside semi-guided interviews, and that the results do generalize to some degree to the rest of situations, but I ad never really thought about testing this assumption.<br>
<br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Matías Guzmán Naranjo<br></div>