Claire Dembry
List of John Benjamins publications for which Claire Dembry plays a role.
Articles
2019 Functional variation in the Spoken BNC2014 and the potential for register analysis Register Studies 1:2, pp. 296–317 | Article
This article focuses on how register considerations informed and guided the design of the spoken component of the British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014). It discusses why the compilers of the corpus sought to gather recordings from just one broad spoken register – ‘informal… read more
2017 The Spoken BNC2014: Designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 319–344 | Article
This paper introduces the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, an 11.5-million-word corpus of orthographically transcribed conversations among L1 speakers of British English from across the UK, recorded in the years 2012–2016. After showing that a survey of the recent history of corpora of… read more