Re: [Corpora-List] corpora and culture

From: John Milton (lcjohn@ust.hk)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 06:19:33 MET DST

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    Hi. I've had a couple of queries lately about the corpus of UK students'
    examination scripts. Have you incorporated these into the resources on
    your site?

    John

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    Dr. John Milton
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Geoffrey Sampson wrote:

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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?
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    > Geoffrey Sampson MA PhD MBCS
    > Professor of Natural Language Computing
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    > School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
    > University of Sussex
    > Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England
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