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Spoken BNC2014 Symposium
On the afternoon of Monday 26th June, CASS hosted a special symposium to celebrate the upcoming public launch of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 – a corpus which members of CASS and Cambridge University Press have spent the last three years compiling. More than fifty guests attended, representing a mixture of Lancaster Summer Schools…
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Spoken BNC2014 book announcement
We are excited to announce a forthcoming book which will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics series. “Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014” (edited by Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer) will feature a collection of research which is currently being undertaken by…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 4
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 3
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 2
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 1
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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What’s wrong with “a bunch of migrants”? Looking at the linguistic evidence
This week at Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron used the term “a bunch of migrants” to describe refugees at a camp in Calais. He was subsequently criticised by Labour MPs and members of the general public on Twitter, and the story was reported on in mainstream newspapers like the Guardian and the Telegraph. Critics described…
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Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grant Scheme – winning proposals
Lancaster University’s ESRC funded Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. These successful applicants will receive exclusive early access to approximately five million words of the Spoken BNC2014 via CQPweb. They will be the first to…
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Spoken BNC2014 meets FOLK
On Thursday 3rd December I visited the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for German Language) in Mannheim. The IDS is Germany’s national, non-university institution for the research and documentation of the German language in both the present day and the past. I was thrilled to be invited there by Swantje Westpfahl, a PhD student at…
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Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grant Scheme – Applications now open
Lancaster University’s ESRC funded Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) and Cambridge University Press are excited to announce the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 Early Access Data Grant scheme. Applications are now open for researchers at any level in the field of corpus linguistics and beyond to gain early access to a large…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.