Discourse Particles in Corpus Data and Textbooks: The Case of Well

摘要: Discourse particles are ubiquitous in spoken discourse. Yet despite their pervasiveness very few studies attempt to look at use the pedagogical setting. Drawing on data from an intercultural corpus of speech and a textbook database, present study compares discourse by expert users English Hong Kong with descriptions presentations textbooks designed for learners same community. Specifically, it investigates similarities differences particle well between two datasets terms its frequency occurrence, positional preference function. Results analysis show that there vast as regards how is used real-world examples described presented teaching materials. This raises question what extent foreign language who have minimal exposure naturally-occurring interactions could effectively master if they solely rely these textbooks.