Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech : Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014 (Hardcover)

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

1. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014

Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer

2. The Spoken BNC 2014: Corpus Linguistic Perspective

Tony McEnery

3. Current British English: Sociolinguistic Perspective

Beatrix Busse

4. Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb

Andrew Hardie

Part II. Discourse, Pragmatics and Interaction

5. Politeness Variation in England: A North-South Divide?

Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings

6. ‘That’s Well Bad’. Some New Intensifiers in Spoken British English

Karin Aijmer

7. Canonical Tag Questions in Contemporary British English

Karin Axelsson

8. 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

9. Variation in the Productivity of Adjective　Comparison in Present-Day English

Tanja Saily, Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz and Jukka Suomela

10. The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary Spoken Data

Gard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell

11. ‘You still talking to me?’ The Zero Auxiliary Progressive in Spoken British English, Twenty Years On.

Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery

12. ‘You can just give those documents to myself’: Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English