Chapter published in:
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang TeubertEdited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 87] 2018
► pp. 163–184
The individual and the group from a corpus perspective
Michael Barlow | University of Auckland
The connection between the individual and the group has been a recurring issue since the earliest investigations into the nature of language. The contribution made here is to provide some empirical data on individual differences in the production of phrases and constructions. For this purpose, we examine some aspects of the speech of five White House press secretaries. The results show that individual speakers reuse favoured constructions and routines, leading to a clear disparity in the frequency of common lexical and grammatical patterns among the different press secretaries. Investigating the extent of idiolectal variation provides a baseline for assessing corpus results based on aggregate data and for understanding the connection between the individual and the group.
Published online: 06 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.87.07bar
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.87.07bar
References
References
Baayen, H.
Barlow, M.
Brezina, V. & Meyerhoff, M.
Coniam, D.
Croft, W.
Dorian, N. C.
Elsness, J.
Fischer, J. L.
Gauchat, L.
Johnstone, B.
Johnstone, B. & Bean, J.
Labov, W.
Lamb, S. M.
Langacker, R. W.
Le Page, R. B. & Tabouret-Keller, A.
Mollin, S.
Patrick, P. L.
Pollard, C. & Sag, I. A.
Rayson, P.
2008 Wmatrix: a web-based corpus processing environment. Computing Department, Lancaster University. http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ (7 August 2017).
Sapir, E.
Saussure, F.
Cited by
Cited by 1 other publications
Statham, Simon & Rocío Montoro
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 05 march 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.