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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Part of the Charlotte Narrative and
Conversation corpus is up in two places, each of which will let your students
do small-scale empirical research:</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="http://education.uncc.edu/more">http://education.uncc.edu/more</a>
and <a href="http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu/">http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu</a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Ute Römer
[mailto:ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 25, 2004
10:23 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> CORPORA@HD.UIB.NO<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List] Looking
for corpora suitable for research on language and gender...</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am in the process of preparing an introductory
course on language and gender and was thinking about compiling a "language
and gender studies corpus sampler" for my students so they can carry out
some small-scale empirical research projects to base their term papers on. For
this sampler it would be ideal to have spoken and/or written corpora with
(roughly comparable) male and female subsections, or just all-male/all-female
talk/writing corpora, or maybe even collections of exclusively gay and/or
lesbian language. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm going to include a couple of small and specialised
home-made corpora (literary texts, book reviews, pop/rap song lyrics...), but
would also like to use larger and less specialised ones, such as COLT
and (parts of) the BNC. Does anyone know about a possibility to extract from
these corpora all-female and all-male conversations or male/female authored
texts (without having to read the headers of 4,000+ text files)? I had a look
at David Lee's "BNC Index" Excel spreadsheet but couldn't find sex
indicators for spoken texts (maybe most of them are mixed sex anyway). Also, I
would be grateful for pointers to other corpora which might be appropriate for
L&G-related research (MICASE online is already on my list; and I've
subdivided the transcript files of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American
English into male/female/mixed groups). </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes and thanks in advance... Ute</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ute Römer<br>
English Department<br>
University of Hanover<br>
Königsworther Platz 1<br>
30167 Hannover<br>
Germany</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Phone: +49 (0)511 762 2997<br>
Fax: +49 (0)511 762 2996<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de">ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/">http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/</a></span></font></p>
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