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Abstract
In this paper we extend the discussion about reproducibility in corpus linguistics from quantitative to qualitative corpus-based approaches and argue that concerns about reproducibility can be addressed in interpretive research paradigms like corpus pragmatics. We first suggest that in interpretive research traditions, transparency is more important than reproducibility. We then argue that interpretive research can be made more transparent and accessible by using notebooks to share analytical procedures. We support these claims through a case study in which we analyse responses to information-seeking utterance-final or questions in spoken Australian English data. We use a qualitative, discourse analytic approach to systematically examine examples of these utterances from selected corpora. We show how corpus linguistic research can draw on existing infrastructures and tools for ensuring transparency, reproducibility, and replicability of interpretive analyses of the pragmatic functions of linguistic tokens in situated contexts.
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