English (adolescent) corpus

Neil Jacobs (N.A.Jacobs@sussex.ac.uk)
Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:31:43 BST

We are planning a series of taped focus group and interview sessions with UK
adolescents as a part of an ESRC-funded research project into issues around
body-image. We understand that some CORPORA subscribers may be interested in
such sessions as a source of words and phrases, and their current use. We
would be interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in this corpus,
and who in return can offer an anonymous transcription service.

The focus group and interview sessions will involve adolescents in years 8,
10 and 12 (that is approximately 12-13, 14-15, and 16-17 years old), at a
secondary school in Sussex, England. They are planned to start at the
beginning of 1997, so that we should have a quantity of material by the end
of January 1997. The research fieldwork continues until June 1997, and so
material will be available for transcription throughout the first half of
1997.

If anyone is interested in this, please contact me directly.

Many thanks

Neil Jacobs email: N.A.Jacobs@sussex.ac.uk
Research Officer (Adolescent Body Image)
School of Social Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer
BRIGHTON
East Sussex, UK
Telephone: 44 (0)1273 606755 ext 2457