[Corpora-List] Looking for corpora suitable for research on language and gender...

[Ute Römer]

Dear All,

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. 

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). 

Best wishes and thanks in advance... Ute


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Ute Römer
English Department
University of Hanover
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)511 762 2997
Fax: +49 (0)511 762 2996
E-mail: ute.roemer at anglistik.uni-hannover.de
http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/

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