Abstract
This paper is a corpus-based comparative analysis of conversational routines in spoken British and Singapore English. It investigates the linguistic realizations, frequencies, distribution and distributive features of the conversational routines of requesting in the five text types of the two parallel corpora of the ICE project, ICE-SIN and ICE-GB. Corpus analysis tools, ICECUP and WordSmith, are used in the search and analysis of conversational routines in the two corpora. The theoretical framework for the analysis of conversational routines is mainly provided by speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics. It has been found that, although some differences in the use of conversational routines can be seen in some of the text types in the corpora, there are, on the whole, more similarities than differences between British and Singapore English.
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