[Corpora-List] Corpus-based research on social differentiation

[Costas Gabrielatos]

Dear Chris
 
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: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/9851/. More information about the project
can be found here: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/637/ and here:
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/278/
 
Regards
 
Eivind Torgersen, Costas Gabrielatos
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
 
 
 
 
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Dear all,

 

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:

 

*COLT*:

Andersen, G. (2001) Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation. A
Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of Adolescents.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

Stenström, Anna-Brita, Gisle Andersen and I. Kristine Hasund. 2002. Trends
in teenage talk. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

*BNC*:

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’. Language 50(4): 696–735.

 

Leech, G. and Fallon, R. 1992. Computer corpora - what do they tell us about
culture? ICAME Journal 16: 29-50 

 

Reid, J. (1995). ‘A study of gender differences in minimal responses.’
Journal of Pragmatics 24: 489-512

 

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) Corpus
Linguistics by the Lune. A Festschrift for Geoffrey Leech. Frankfurt am
Main: Peter Lang, 185–221. 

 

Rühlemann. Christoph. 2007. Conversation in context: A corpus-driven
approach. London: Continuum. 

 

 

Does anyone know of any other such corpus-based sociolinguistic studies?

 

Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

Chris

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