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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>A slight correction: the reference to the
paper I wrote with Geoff and Mary was mangled somehow. It should read:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Rayson, P. and Leech, G. and Hodges, M.
(1997) Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses
of the conversational component of the British National Corpus. International
Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2 (1). pp. 133-152<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, the Leech and Fallon paper was based
on a comparison of Brown and LOB rather than the BNC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Director of UCREL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>CRuehlemann@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 01 July 2008 07:48<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> CORPORA@UIB.NO<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List]
Corpus-based research on social differentiation</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Is anyone aware of any corpus-based
research on social differentiation in the use of language? I am aware of the
following studies, which are based on either COLT or the BNC:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>*COLT*:</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Andersen, G. (2001) Pragmatic Markers and
Sociolinguistic Variation. A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of
Adolescents. Amsterdam/</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stenström, Anna-Brita, Gisle
Andersen and I. Kristine Hasund. </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>2002. </span></font><i><font color=black><span
style='color:black;font-style:italic'>Trends in teenage talk.</span></font></i><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>*BNC*:</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Rayson, P., G. Leech and M. Hodges (1997)
‘Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the
conversational component of the British National Corpus’. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Language</span></i> 50(4): 696–735.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Leech, G. and Fallon, R. 1992. Computer
corpora - what do they tell us about culture? <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">ICAME Journal</font></i></em> 16: 29-50 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Reid, J. (1995). ‘A study of
gender differences in minimal responses.’ <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journal
of Pragmatics</span></i> 24: 489-512</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Schmid, H. J. (2003) ‘Do women and men
really live in different cultures? Evidence from the BNC’. In Wilson, A., P.
Rayson and T. McEnery (eds) <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Corpus
Linguistics by the Lune. A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech</span></i>. </span></font><font
color=black><span lang=DE style='color:black'>Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
185–221. </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Rühlemann. Christoph. 2007. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Conversation in context: A corpus-driven approach</span></i>.
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>:
Continuum.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Does anyone know of any other such
corpus-based sociolinguistic studies?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Your help is greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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