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

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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.

List of contents

Part I. Short Introductions to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics and the BNC2014



  1. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014




  2. Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer


  3. The Spoken BNC 2014: Corpus Linguistic Perspective




  4. Tony McEnery


  5. Current British English: Sociolinguistic Perspective




  6. Beatrix Busse


  7. Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb




  8. Andrew Hardie


    Part II. Discourse, Pragmatics and Interaction


  9. Politeness Variation in England: A North-South Divide?




  10. Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings


  11. 'That's Well Bad'. Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British English




  12. Karin Aijmer


  13. Canonical Tag Questions in Contemporary British English




  14. Karin Axelsson


  15. Yeah, yeah yeah, or yeah no that's right: A Multifactorial Analysis of the Selection of Backchannel Structures in British English




  16. Deanna Wong and Haidee Kruger


    Part III. Morphosyntax

  17. Variation in the Productivity of Adjective Comparison in Present-Day English




  18. Tanja Säily, Victorina González-Díaz and Jukka Suomela


  19. The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary Spoken Data




  20. Gard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell


  21. 'You still talking to me?' The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English, Twenty Years On.




  22. Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery


  23. 'You can just give those documents to myself': Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English




Laura L. Paterson

Summary

Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech.

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