1st Edition

Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics A Guide for Research

282 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics is an accessible and practical introduction to how corpus linguistics can be used to study language variation and change. This book introduces sociolinguistic concepts, sociolinguistic theory and up-to-date research from key areas of variation and change, including age, gender, style, varieties, language online, language and the media, historical... Read more

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations

1. Introducing corpus linguistics for sociolinguistics

2. Gender, age and corpus linguistics

3. Style and corpus linguistics 

4. Language variation and corpus linguistics 

5. Language online and corpus linguistics 

6. Historical change and corpus linguistics 

7. Diachronic variation in the media and corpus linguistics 

8. Conclusion

Index

Biography

Joan O’Sullivan is Lecturer in English Language and Literature and Programme Coordinator at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. She is the author of Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising.

Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics and works at the University of Extremadura. She is the author of Orality in Written Texts: Using Historical Corpora to Investigate Irish English (1700–1900) and co-editor of Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics and Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research.

Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. She is author and co-editor of several volumes including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics.