Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech

Vaclav Brezina is Senior Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. He also designed a number of different tools for corpus analysis such as BNC64, Lancaster vocabulary tool and Lancaster statistical tool. He is involved in the development of the Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken learner production and the Spoken BNC2014. Robbie Love is a PhD Research Student at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. He is heavily involved in the compilation of the Spoken BNC2014 and is responsible for a series of critical methodological investigations into the application of spoken corpora for sociolinguistic research.Karin Aijmer is Professor Emerita in English linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her most recent publications include A Variational Pragmatic Analysis (2013), A Handbook of Corpus Pragmatics, with Christoph Rühlemann (2014) and Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book for Students, with Dawn Archer and Anne Wichmann (2012).

• Part I. Short Introductions to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics and the BNC2014 Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer The Spoken BNC 2014: Corpus Linguistic PerspectiveTony McEnery Current British English: Sociolinguistic PerspectiveBeatrix Busse Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPwebAndrew HardiePart II. Discourse, Pragmatics and Interaction Politeness Variation in England: A North-South Divide?Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings ‘That’s Well Bad’. Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British EnglishKarin Aijmer Canonical Tag Questions in Contemporary British EnglishKarin Axelsson Yeah, yeah yeah, or yeah no that’s right: A Multifactorial Analysis of the Selection of Backchannel Structures in British EnglishDeanna Wong and Haidee KrugerPart III. Morphosyntax Variation in the Productivity of Adjective Comparison in Present-Day EnglishTanja Säily, Victorina González-Díaz and Jukka Suomela The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary Spoken DataGard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell ‘You still talking to me?’ The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English, Twenty Years On.Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery ‘You can just give those documents to myself’: Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English Laura L. Paterson