2011
DOI: 10.1590/s1984-63982011000200005
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Corpora from a sociolinguistic perspective

Abstract: In this paper, I consider the use of corpora in sociolinguistic research and, more broadly, the relationships between corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. I consider the distinction between "conventional" and "unconventional" corpora (Beal et al. 2007a, b) and assess why conventional corpora have not had more traction in sociolinguistics. I then discuss the potential utility of corpora for sociolinguistic study in terms of the recent trajectory of sociolinguistic research interests (Eckert under review), a… Show more

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“…While work that situates itself specifically within documentary linguistics tends to focus on endangered varieties, the kinds of data that it focuses on can be collected for any language and similar approaches have been adopted in other subfields, as evidenced for instance by the data sets assembled as part of the TalkBank project (MacWhinney 2007) or speech data used as the basis for sociolinguistic investigation (Kendall 2008(Kendall , 2011; see also Sonderegger et al,chapter 15,this volume;Kendall & Farrington,chapter 14,this volume;Fridland & Kendall,chapter 18,this volume). Data of this kind can be considered to be documentary in nature, even if language documentation as a term is typically applied to endangered language contexts.…”
Section: The Range Of Linguistic Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While work that situates itself specifically within documentary linguistics tends to focus on endangered varieties, the kinds of data that it focuses on can be collected for any language and similar approaches have been adopted in other subfields, as evidenced for instance by the data sets assembled as part of the TalkBank project (MacWhinney 2007) or speech data used as the basis for sociolinguistic investigation (Kendall 2008(Kendall , 2011; see also Sonderegger et al,chapter 15,this volume;Kendall & Farrington,chapter 14,this volume;Fridland & Kendall,chapter 18,this volume). Data of this kind can be considered to be documentary in nature, even if language documentation as a term is typically applied to endangered language contexts.…”
Section: The Range Of Linguistic Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finalmente, é de se destacar que corpora como o do Banco VARSUL permitem uma interface com outras áreas, tais como a pesquisa de corpus e a área de pesquisas geolinguísticas, como demonstram pesquisas como a de Brandão (2009), Mota (2009), Callou (2010, entre outros. Kendall (2011) observa que é na pesquisa sociolinguística da primeira onda, e talvez também na da segunda onda, que estudos de linguística de corpus podem encontrar correspondência. Segundo o autor:…”
Section: Por Que Corpora Em Larga-escala?unclassified
“…As we will see in this section, much of this work has used corpora that are annotated or 'tagged' for socio-demographic information about the people who contribute the language or texts to the corpus (see Baker, 2010; see also the recent collections by Brezina et al, 2018 andFriginal, 2018). While advancements in corpus annotation have unquestionably increased the possibilities for undertaking corpus-aided research of language and identity (Kendall, 2011), the use of annotation in such studies is by no means ubiquitous. Indeed, there remain, as we will see, instances where such annotation has not been used, as well as cases where it is simply not possible to annotate a corpus for socio-demographic information.…”
Section: Introduction and Aimsmentioning
confidence: 99%