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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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). </DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes and thanks in advance... Ute</DIV>
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<DIV>Ute Römer<BR>English Department<BR>University of Hanover<BR>Königsworther
Platz 1<BR>30167 Hannover<BR>Germany</DIV>
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<DIV>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></DIV>
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