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

[Davis, Boyd]

Part of the Charlotte Narrative and Conversation corpus is up in two places,
each of which will let your students do small-scale empirical research:

http://education.uncc.edu/more <http://education.uncc.edu/more>     and
http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu <http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu/> 

 

Boyd Davis

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ute Römer [mailto:ute.roemer at anglistik.uni-hannover.de] 
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:23 AM
To: CORPORA at HD.UIB.NO
Subject: [Corpora-List] Looking for corpora suitable for research on
language and gender...

 

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
<mailto:ute.roemer at anglistik.uni-hannover.de> 
http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/
<http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/> 

 

 

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