34.2396, FYI: Participants Wanted: Looking for Native Chinese Speakers for a Spoken Chinese Corpus

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Subject: 34.2396, FYI: Participants Wanted: Looking for Native Chinese Speakers for a Spoken Chinese Corpus

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Date: 04-Aug-2023
From: Lin Li [blculyn at gmail.com]
Subject: Participants Wanted: Looking for Native Chinese Speakers for a Spoken Chinese Corpus

Researcher Introduction
My name is Li Lin and I got my PhD in Applied Linguistics from Massy
University, New Zealand. Currently I work at Zhejiang International
Studies University. My main research interests are corpus linguistics
and learner corpus research. I am particularly interested in spoken
corpus design and construction and how corpora may be applied to other
fields of linguistics, such as language teaching and learning.

Project Description and Invitation
A spoken corpus is a collection of spoken language stored as written
transcriptions in an electronic form. It provides researchers with
rich samples of spoken language in use. My doctoral research discussed
the use of a Chinese discourse marker就是 jiushi by using a small spoken
Chinese corpus (over 400,000 words). Because the corpus is small in
size, it has the risk to skew the data when conducting the analysis of
discourse maker use. Therefore, I am trying to expand the size of the
Spoken Chinese Corpus that I built for my doctoral research.
To do this, I would like to gather spontaneous conversations conducted
by approximately 200 or more native Chinese speakers, and I am
contacting you to join. I hope that this will be mutually interesting.
If you are interested in spoken data collection or want to use the
corpus data that I gathered in 2018, please do not hesitate to contact
me.

The Recordings
You will record the conversation using your phone or other audio
recording equipment, and then send the recording to me. All the
recorded conversations will be transcribed and contribute to the
construction of the Spoken Chinese Corpus which will be publicly
available. All the recordings will be stored on a password protected
computer and will be listened to only by myself. I will use the
information that I gain from the corpus in my academic articles and
presentations. However, I will make sure that nobody can identify the
participants involved.

Participant’s Rights

You are under no obligation to accept this invitation. If you decide
to participate, you have the right to:
- decline to answer any particular questions;
- withdraw from the study at any time before the recording of the
conversation;
- ask any questions about the study at any time during participation;
- provide information on the understanding that personal information
of speakers involved in the conversation will not be used unless you
give permission to the researcher;
- be given access to a summary of the project findings when it is
concluded.

Project Contacts
You can ask me questions about the research before you agree to take
part. You can contact me by e-mail (blculyn at gmail.com;
blculyn at 163.com) or telephone (+86 18201691549) or WeChat (+86
18201691549).

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Language Family(ies): Chinese

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