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 the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access data grants.

With exclusive early access to approximately five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data, the book’s contributors will present a range of innovative studies which each analyse the corpus from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Following the public release of the complete Spoken BNC2014 (approximately ten million words) in late 2017, the book is anticipated to follow shortly thereafter. The agreement of the book with Routledge joins a previously announced special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL), which will feature a range of work by other recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access data grants.