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The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus (2005)

Abstract
The four major objectives of the project were: i) to establish an electronic corpus of (a) conversations, from the British National Corpus (BNC) and (b) oral narratives, from Lancaster's Centre for North Western Regional Studies (CNWRS) oral history archive; ii) to annotate the corpus manually for categories of Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation (ST and WP); iii) to conduct systematic quantitative and qualitative analyses of the annotated corpus and iv) to compare the findings with those of Short and Semino's 1994-7 study of ST and WP in a corpus of written fictional and non-fictional British English narratives (BA LRG M-AN2314/APN/3489).

Publication details
Publisher Arts and Humanities Data Service
Contributors Short, Mick, Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Short, Mick
Repository Arts and Humanities Data Service (United Kingdom)
Keywords Linguistic corpora, Linguistics, Conversation, Discourse analysis, Speech, Interviews, English language--Spoken English, Oral history
Type CollectionSound, CollectionText
Language english
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