Vaclav Brezina - Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken Bnc2014

Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short introductions highlighting the state of the art in three major areas of corpus-based sociolinguistics, while the remaining chapters feature empirical studies based on the Spoken BNC2014 data. These analyses focus on English spoken in everyday situations in the UK, with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. The Spoken BNC2014 as a robust dataset allows this team of researchers the unique opportunity to focus on speaker characteristics such as gender, age, dialect and socio-economic status, to examine a range of sociolinguistic dimensions, including grammar, pragmatics and discourse, and to reflect on the major changes that have occurred in British society since the last corpus was compiled in the 1990s. This dynamic new contribution to the burgeoning field of corpus-based sociolinguistics is key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, grammar and British English.

Vaclav Brezina is a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. His research interests are in the areas of corpus design and methodology, sociolinguistics and statistics. He is an author of Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide (CUP, 2018). He also designed a number of different tools for corpus analysis such as #LancsBox, BNC64, Lancaster Vocab Tool and Lancaster Stats Tool online. He has been involved in the development of corpora such as the Spoken BNC2014, Trinity Lancaster Corpus and Guangwai-Lancaster Corpus.

Robbie Love is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds, with research interests in applied and corpus linguistics. He completed his PhD at Lancaster University in 2017, where he was lead researcher in the development of the Spoken BNC2014. Before moving to Leeds, he held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge Assessment English, where he worked on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus.

Karin Aijmer is Professor Emerita in English Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests focus on pragmatics, discourse analysis, modality, corpus linguistics and contrastive analysis. Her books include Conversational Routines in English: Convention and Creativity (1996), English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a Corpus (2002), The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty: A Study of Adverbs in English (with co-author) (2007) and Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Pragmatic Analysis (2013). She is co-editor of Pragmatics of Society (Handbooks of Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter, 2011) and of A Handbook of Corpus Pragmatics (CUP, 2014), and co-author of Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book for Students (Routledge, 2012).

Edited by Tony McEnery
Lancaster University, UK
Michael Hoey, Liverpool University, UK

15Spoken Corpus Linguistics

From Monomodal to Multimodal

Svenja Adolphs and Ronald Carter

16Digital Literary Studies

Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama

David L. Hoover, Jonathan Culpeper, and Kieran OHalloran

17Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistics Research

Edited by Paul Baker and Jesse Egbert

18The Language of Hate

A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

Andrew Brindle

19Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life

A Corpus-Based Study

Elena Semino, Zsfia Demjn, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne and Paul Rayson

19Understanding Metaphor through Corpora

A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing

Katie J. Patterson

20TESOL Student Teacher Discourse

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Online and Face-to-Face Interactions

Elaine Riordan

21Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech

Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014

Edited by Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer

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Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer

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