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class=306523113-01072008>Dear Chris</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
class=306523113-01072008>We are currently investigating the effect of social
variables on the use of the indefinite article in London English through a
corpus of transcribed interviews (we will also be looking at the use of
discourse markers), and we plan to publish the results in the near future.
The slides of a recent presentation at the Lancaster University Corpus Research
Group are available here: <A
href="http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/9851/">http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/9851/</A>.
More information about the project can be found here: <A
href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/637/">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/637/</A> and
here: <A
href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/278/">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/278/</A></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
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class=306523113-01072008>Regards</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
class=306523113-01072008>Eivind Torgersen, </SPAN></o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
class=306523113-01072008>Costas Gabrielatos</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
class=306523113-01072008>Department of Linguistics and English
Language</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><SPAN
class=306523113-01072008>Lancaster University</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear
all,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">*COLT*:</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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 face=Arial
color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">*BNC*:</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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 face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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 face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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 face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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 face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does anyone know of
any other such corpus-based sociolinguistic
studies?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your help is greatly
appreciated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chris<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>