Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014
Edited by Tony McEnery, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:3 (2017) v, 145 pp.
Robbie Love
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robbie Love plays a role.
Title
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
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 hate that dare not speak its name? Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 99–127 | Article
This chapter uses corpus-based methods to explore how British Parliamentary arguments against LGBT equality have changed in response to decreasing social acceptability of discriminatory language against minority groups. A comparison of the language of opposition to the equalisation of the age of… 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 spoken… read more
2017 Introduction: Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 311–318 | Introduction
2015 The hate that dare not speak its name? Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 57–86 | Article
This paper uses corpus-based methods to explore how British Parliamentary arguments against LGBT equality have changed in response to decreasing social acceptability of discriminatory language against minority groups. A comparison of the language of opposition to the equalisation of the age of… read more