RE: [Corpora-List] Looking for corpora suitable for research on l anguage and gender...

From: Davis, Boyd (BDavis@email.uncc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 18:17:31 MET

  • Next message: Diana Maynard: "Re: [Corpora-List] Looking for corpora suitable for research on language and gender..."

    Part of the Charlotte Narrative and Conversation corpus is up in two places,
    each of which will let your students do small-scale empirical research:

    http://education.uncc.edu/more <http://education.uncc.edu/more> and
    http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu <http://www.newsouthvoices.uncc.edu/>

     

    Boyd Davis

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ute Römer [mailto:ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de]
    Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:23 AM
    To: CORPORA@HD.UIB.NO
    Subject: [Corpora-List] Looking for corpora suitable for research on
    language and gender...

     

    Dear All,

     

    I am in the process of preparing an introductory course on language and
    gender and was thinking about compiling a "language and gender studies
    corpus sampler" for my students so they can carry out some small-scale
    empirical research projects to base their term papers on. For this sampler
    it would be ideal to have spoken and/or written corpora with (roughly
    comparable) male and female subsections, or just all-male/all-female
    talk/writing corpora, or maybe even collections of exclusively gay and/or
    lesbian language.

     

    I'm going to include a couple of small and specialised home-made corpora
    (literary texts, book reviews, pop/rap song lyrics...), but would also like
    to use larger and less specialised ones, such as COLT and (parts of) the
    BNC. Does anyone know about a possibility to extract from these corpora
    all-female and all-male conversations or male/female authored texts (without
    having to read the headers of 4,000+ text files)? I had a look at David
    Lee's "BNC Index" Excel spreadsheet but couldn't find sex indicators for
    spoken texts (maybe most of them are mixed sex anyway). Also, I would be
    grateful for pointers to other corpora which might be appropriate for
    L&G-related research (MICASE online is already on my list; and I've
    subdivided the transcript files of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken
    American English into male/female/mixed groups).

     

    Best wishes and thanks in advance... Ute

     

     

    ************************************************************

     

    Ute Römer
    English Department
    University of Hanover
    Königsworther Platz 1
    30167 Hannover
    Germany

     

    Phone: +49 (0)511 762 2997
    Fax: +49 (0)511 762 2996
    E-mail: ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de
    <mailto:ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de>
    http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/
    <http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/>

     

     



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