ABSTRACT
In this section I shall compare the distribution of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in LL and LOB, taking the two corpora as broadly representative of speech and writing respectively. Figures for the two corpora are presented in Table 7.1, in which frequencies are given for the fifteen genres of LOB, along with subtotals for the ‘informative’ and ‘imaginative’ subgroups, and Table 7.2, in which the 87 texts of LL are subclassified-as in Table 2.2-according to a variety of register features, including mode of communication (dialogue or monologue), tenor relationships between participants (intimates, equals, or disparates), nature of speech situation (private or public), and method of recording (surreptitious or non-surreptitious).
