Corpus Linguistics for Oral History

<p><i>Corpus Linguistics for Oral History</i> takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives. Bridging the gap between the two areas this book:</p><ul> <li>establishes a framework to pursue this type of research and guides the reader through tasks that will ensure practical application</li> <li>shows how oral narratives can facilitate historical linguistics including historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics</li> <li>illustrates how the techniques of corpus linguistics can help social historians to analyse oral narratives in new and fruitful ways</li> <li>takes readers through each step of the process from initial close readings of data to constructing a corpus that adheres to parameters of representativeness through to the application of various corpus linguistics techniques</li> <li>includes an appendix of resources and examples of extracts from a global range of historical texts throughout introducing the reader to a range of freely accessible digitized archives</li> </ul><p>This book is key reading for students and researchers working in History and Corpus Linguistics. History students will find a new perspective on approaching primary historical sources while linguistics students will find insights into an avenue of data worthy of multiple levels of linguistic analysis.</p>