Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics

Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics illustrates how sociolinguistic approaches and linguistic distributions from corpora can be effectively combined to produce meaningful studies of language use and language variation. Three major parts comprise the volume focusing on: (1) Corpora and the Study of Languages and Dialects, in particular, varieties of global Englishes; (2) Corpora and Social Demographics; and (3) Corpora and Register Characteristics. The 14 peer-reviewed, new, and original chapters explore language variation related to regional dialectology, gender, sexuality, age, race, ‘nation,’ workplace discourse, diachronic change, and social media and web registers. Invited contributors made use of systematically-designed general and specialized corpora, sound research questions, methodologies (e.g., keyword analysis, multi-dimensional analysis, clusters, and collocations), and logical/credible interpretive techniques. Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics is an important resource for researchers and graduate students in the fields of sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and applied linguistics.

1 Corpus approaches to sociolinguistics: Introduction and chapter overviews Eric Friginal and Mackenzie Bristow Part 1: Corpora and the study of languages/dialects (Varieties of global Englishes) 2 Using large online corpora to examine lexical, semantic, and cultural variation in different dialects and time periods Mark Davies 3 Using corpus-based analysis to study register and dialect variation on the searchable web Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, and Meixiu Zhang 4 Variation in global English: A collocation-based analysisTony Berber Sardinha 5 Indian English: A pedagogical model (even) in India? Chandrika Balasubramanian Part 2: Corpora and social demographics 6 Sexuality Paul Baker 7 A corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic marker you get me Eivind Torgersen, Costas Gabrielatos, and Sebastian Hoffmann 8 just, actually at work in New ZealandBernadette Vine 9 Exploring the intersection of gender and race in evaluations of mathematics instructors on ratemyprofessors.com Nicholas Close Subtirelu 10 Attitudes towards autism of parents raising autistic children: Evidence from "mom" and "dad" blogsA. Cameron Coppala and Jack A. Hardy 11 Social functional linguistic variation in conversational Dutch Jack Grieve, Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts Part 3: Corpora and register characteristics 12 A corpus-driven investigation of corporate governance reports Martin Warren 13 A corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) of representations of the ‘underclass’ in the English-language press: Who are they, how do they behave, and who is to blame for them? Jane H. Johnson and Alan Partington 14 ‘had enough of experts’: Intersubjectivity and the quoted voice in microblogging Michele Zappavigna 15 Linguistic variation in Facebook and Twitter posts Eric Friginal, Oksana Waugh, and Ashley Titak

Eric Friginal is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL and Director of International Programs, College of Arts and Sciences, at Georgia State University, USA.