1st Edition

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History

By Christopher Fitzgerald, Ivor Timmis Copyright 2025
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives. Bridging the gap between the two areas, this book: establishes a framework to pursue this type of research and guides the reader through tasks that will ensure practical application shows how oral narratives can facilitate... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

1.           Oral History and Corpus Linguistics: Parallels and Deviations

2.           Creating Oral History

3.           Creating a Corpus of Oral History

4.           Analysing a Corpus of Oral History

5.           Evaluating and Exploiting Historical Spoken Corpora

6.           Formulating and Answering Research Questions

7.           Oral History and Linguistics: Beyond the Corpus

 

Appendix: Resources

Index

Biography

Chris Fitzgerald is Associate Lecturer at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.

Ivor Timmis is Emeritus Professor of English Language Teaching at Leeds Beckett University, UK.