Preliminary Recommendations

Spoken typology

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Communicative Situation

face to face + + + + + + + + +

telephone + + + + + + + +

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS A + + +

monologue + + + + + +

dialogue + + + + + + + GENRE MONOLOGUE

lecture + + + + + + +

commentary + + + + + + + +

speech + + + + + +

sermon + + + +

demonstration + + + +

narration + + + GENRE DIALOGUE

conversation + + + + + + + + +

interview + + + + + + + +

discussion/debate + + + + + +

consultation + + +

proceedings + + +

chat shows + + +

meeting/gathering + + +

SETTING A

education + + + + + +

commerce/business + + + +

radio + + + + + + + +

tv + + + + + +

political and social organs. + + +

private/personal + + + + +

work +

institutional + + +

SPONTANEITY + +

scripted A + + +

unscripted/preplanned + A + + + +

spontaneous/unprepared + + + A + + + + +

TOPIC + + A + A + + + ? + STYLE

distance + + + A +

specialised/lay(technicality) + + PARTICIPANT DETAILS

sex + ? + + + ? + +

age + ? + + ? + +

ethnic group ? + A A

region + ? + + + ? + +

In the above table, A means administrative data rather than text type.

1. Svartik et al
2. de Vriendt de Man
3. de Jong
4. Altenberg
5. Birmingham Collection of English Texts Spoken
6. Feldweg
7. Collins et al
8. Crowdy demographic
9. Crowdy context governed
10. Martin et al
11. Atkins et al
12. Biber
13. Malaga
14. Bank of English
15. British National Corpus
16. Survey of English