Studying Discourse from Corpus and Experimental Data: Bridging the Methodological Gap

This paper starts from the observation that in discourse analysis, unlike other fields of linguistics, very few studies combine corpus-based and experimental data. It seeks to understand reasons behind this methodological monism by taking into account specificities level benefits drawbacks each method. In first part paper, challenges facing combination corpora experimentation are developed. second part, a selection mixed-method discourse-analytic is reviewed illustrate different ways which experiments can interact, how much convergence (or lack thereof) be found across production comprehension paradigms, technical solutions researchers have make data as comparable possible. structured literature review concludes with recommendation analysis benefit more approaches, provided methods planned respective affordances method mind.