Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies: The Linguistic Construction of Certainty

by Chris Fitzgerald

Book Overview

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools.

Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032224770
• ISBN13: 9781032224770
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"