Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech

Part I. Short Introductions to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics and the BNC2014






Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014
Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer




The Spoken BNC 2014: Corpus Linguistic Perspective
Tony McEnery




Current British English: Sociolinguistic Perspective
Beatrix Busse




Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb
Andrew Hardie

Part II. Discourse, Pragmatics and Interaction




Politeness Variation in England: A North-South Divide?
Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings




'That's Well Bad'. Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British English
Karin Aijmer




Canonical Tag Questions in Contemporary British English
Karin Axelsson




Yeah, yeah yeah, or yeah no that's right: A Multifactorial Analysis of the Selection of Backchannel Structures in British English
Deanna Wong and Haidee Kruger

Part III. Morphosyntax




Variation in the Productivity of Adjective Comparison in Present-Day English
Tanja Saeily, Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz and Jukka Suomela




The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary Spoken Data
Gard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell




'You still talking to me?' The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English, Twenty Years On.
Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery




'You can just give those documents to myself': Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English

Laura L. Paterson