[Corpora-List] corpus of narratives

[Leech, Geoffrey]

Dear Chris,

It's not exactly a corpus, but there are quite a few texts in the BNC which seem to be largely oral narratives - they are interviews of individuals, some of them under the heading of "Oral History". The texts I noted as likely candidates in a cursory look through the BNC Users Reference Guide were: K61-5, K68-9, K6K, K6L, K6M, K6N, K6O, K6P, K6Q, K6R, K6S, K6T, K6U, K7G. For example, one text (K54) is called: "Suffolk Sound Archive: interview for the Museum of East Anglian Life". I think the interviewer's role is mainly to keep people talking.

These are British English, and are tagged.

Geoff Leech


Geoffrey Leech
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK
g.leech at lancaster.ac.uk

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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:47:40 EST
From: CRuehlemann_AT_aol.com
Subject: [Corpora-List] corpus of narratives
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Dear everybody,
 
can anybody direct me to a corpus of oral personal experience narratives, preferably in British English, tagged or untagged?
 
Relevant information is greatly appreciated.
 
Best
 
Chris
 
(Christoph Rühlemann, Munich
_cruehlemann_AT_aol.com_ (mailto:cruehlemann_AT_aol.com) )



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