TY - GEN AU - Brezina Vaclav AU - Love,Robbie AU - Aijmer,Karin TI - Corpus approaches to contemporary British speech: sociolinguistic studies of the spoken BNC2014 T2 - Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics SN - 9780367590284 U1 - 306.44221041 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Corpora KW - Linguistics KW - English language KW - Spoken English KW - Social aspects KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Pragmatics KW - Sociolinguistic Study KW - Great Britain N1 - Includes index; Part I Short Introduction to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics and the BNC2014 -- 1. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014 -- 2. The Spoken BNC2014: The Corpus Linguistic Perspective -- 3. Current British English: The Sociolinguistic Perspective -- 4. Using the Spoken BNC2014 in CQP web -- Part II DiscoursePragmatics and Interaction -- 5. Politeness variation in England: A North-South Divide? -- 6. 'Tha's Well Bad': Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British English -- 7. Canonical tag Questions inContemporary British English -- 8. Yeah, Yeah Yeah or Yeah No That's Right: A Multifactorial Analysis of the Selection of Backchannel Structures in British English -- Part III Morphosyntax -- 9. Variation in the Productivity of Adjective Comparison in Present-Day English -- 10. The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights From Contemporary British Spoken Data -- 11. 'You Still talking to Me? ': The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English Twenty Years on -- 12. 'You Can Just give Those Documents to Myself': Untriggered Reflexive Pronouns in 21st- Century Spoken British English N2 - Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short introductions highlighting the state-of-the-art in three major areas of corpus-based sociolinguistics, while the remaining chapters feature rigorous analysis of the research outcomes of the project grounded in Spoken BNC2014 data samples, highlighting English used in everyday situations in the UK, with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. This unique and robust dataset allows this team of researchers the unique opportunity to focus on speaker characteristics such as gender, age, dialect and socio-economic status, to examine a range of sociolinguistic dimensions, including grammar, pragmatics, and discourse, and to reflect on the major changes that have occurred in British society since the last corpus was compiled in the 1990s. This dynamic new contribution to the burgeoning field of corpus-based sociolinguistics is key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, grammar, and British English ER -