EL ÁMBITO DE LA ORALIDAD EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA ANGLOSAJONA RECIENTE

Studies on orality have acquired great relevance in the last decades along with the appearance of corpus linguistics research and the creation of increa- singly more sophisticated textual analysis tools. In this work, we have carried out an exhaustive analysis of articles published in fif- teen international journals of the highest prestige and relevance in the area of Applied Linguistics during the years 2004 and 2005. Our purpose is to determine the most outs- tanding lines of work in orality are and hence to uncover at which point the research in this area stands. For the purpose of our study we have classified the works analysed in