Corpus approaches to contemporary British speech : sociolinguistic studies of the Spoken BNC2014
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Corpus approaches to contemporary British speech : sociolinguistic studies of the Spoken BNC2014
(Routledge advances in corpus linguistics / edited by Anthony McEnery and Michael Hoey, 21)
Routledge, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 rigorous analysis of the research outcomes of the project grounded in Spoken BNC2014 data samples, highlighting English used in everyday situations in the UK, with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. This unique and 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.
Table of Contents
Part I. Short Introductions to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics and the BNC2014
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014
Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer
The Spoken BNC 2014: Corpus Linguistic Perspective
Tony McEnery
Current British English: Sociolinguistic Perspective
Beatrix Busse
Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb
Andrew Hardie
Part II. Discourse, Pragmatics and Interaction
Politeness Variation in England: A North-South Divide?
Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings
'That's Well Bad'. Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British English
Karin Aijmer
Canonical Tag Questions in Contemporary British English
Karin Axelsson
Yeah, yeah yeah, or yeah no that's right: A Multifactorial Analysis of the Selection of Backchannel Structures in British English
Deanna Wong and Haidee Kruger
Part III. Morphosyntax
Variation in the Productivity of Adjective Comparison in Present-Day English
Tanja Saily, Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz and Jukka Suomela
The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary Spoken Data
Gard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell
'You still talking to me?' The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English, Twenty Years On.
Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery
'You can just give those documents to myself': Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English
Laura L. Paterson
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