BNC AND COCA AS CORPUS RESOURCES OF THE VERBAL EMOTICON IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH: REPRESENTATIVENESS, SEARCH TOOLS, AND LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION
The article substantiates the methodological value of the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English for the study of the verbal emoticon in contemporary English. The verbal emoticon is defined as a functional-discursive category: a verbal unit or construction that names, frames, intensifie...