Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives

by Ivor Timmis

Historical Research on Spoken Language: Corpus Perspectives uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language. Based on two corpora compiled using data from sociological and anthropological studies of Victorian London and 1930s Bolton, the author shows how historical spoken corpora can illuminate the nature of spoken language as well as the attitudes, values and behaviour of the specific community represented in a corpus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367594692
• ISBN13: 9780367594695
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages