UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LOS ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL DISCURSO MEDIADO POR ORDENADOR EN LENGUA ESPAÑOLA

The aim of this paper is to provide an state of the art of the key issues and methods adopted in computer-mediated discourse research in Spanish. By means of a content analysis of research papers published in scientific journals in Spanish between 1998 and 2014, we aim at identifying, first, the main objectives underlying these papers and, second, the methods and techniques adopted for the analysis of interactions in the digital environment. The results of this exploratory study, which is constitutes a first step of a larger research project (CorpusRedEs), show how the studies on computer-mediated discourse in Spanish have undergone an evolution from the characterization of the so-called "Internet language" throughout the description of some features in chats, to the analysis of different linguistic and pragmatic phenomena, such as linguistic variation, genre or (im)politeness, in a wider range of digital media.