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. This book: demonstrates how spoken language can be examined
using material collected before the advent of sophisticated
recording equipment and large-scale computerised corpora; shows how
other written sources such as diaries, letters and existing
historical corpora can be used to analyse informal language use as
far back as the fifteenth century; provides insight into the
longevity and resilience of many spoken language features which are
often regarded as vernacular or non-standard; comes with a
companion website which gives full access to the Bolton Worktown
Corpus. Historical Research on Spoken Language is key reading for
researchers and students working in relevant areas.
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