[Corpora-List] corpora and culture

From: Geoffrey Sampson (geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 15:05:18 MET DST

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    In the corpus linguistics anthology which Diana McCarthy and I are
    compiling for Continuum, one of the items to be reprinted is Geoffrey
    Leech and Roger Fallon's classic study of transatlantic cultural
    differences as revealed by vocabulary in LOB and Brown.
            Geoffrey and Roger point out that the differences may be out
    of date - the corpora are more than 40 years old, and Britain feels
    far more American to me now than it did in the 1960s. It occurs to
    me to wonder whether anyone has used the Freiburg "FLOB and Frown"
    Corpora to add time-depth to the study - if anything like that has
    been done, our anthology ought to mention it?

    Geoffrey Sampson MA PhD MBCS
    Professor of Natural Language Computing

    School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
    University of Sussex
    Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England

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