News
Review of our advice book
February 2024
In 2022, we published a Cambridge Element on the dynamics of advice-giving and advice uptake in English conversation, using the London–Lund Corpus 2 (see here). The intended readership of this open access book is students and researchers in corpus pragmatics interested in new ways of investigating speech acts by means of spoken corpora. Now, Lin Shao of the University of Barcelona has written an excellent review of the book in Contrastive Pragmatics, commending its "multidimensional theoretical framework" and "a mixed methods of corpus pragmatics analysis approach". Thank you! Find the review here.
Interview for the CorpusCast podcast
November 2023
Nele and Carita were interviewed by Robbie Love for the CorpusCast podcast. CorpusCast is a podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. Every month, Robbie speaks with researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied in a diverse range of contexts including education, health and technology. Of course, we talked all about the London–Lund Corpus 2 and its upcoming release! Find the podcast episode here.
Our special issue on spoken language is out in ELL
December 2021
We are happy to announce yet another publication based on LLC–2. This time it is part of a special issue edited by us and published in English Language and Linguistics. We are grateful to the general editor, the reviewers and all our contributors: Charlotte Bourgoin, Gerard O'Grady, Kristin Davidse, Gunnel Tottie, Robbie Love, Niall Curry and Susan Reichelt. You can find the entire issue (including our editorial) here. Happy reading!
Publication alert
July 2021
We are happy to announce the publication of the article "Challenges of releasing audio material for spoken data: The case of the London–Lund Corpus 2". The publication is part of the special issue "Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data in corpus compilation", co-edited by Tanja Säily and Jukka Tyrkkö for the journal Research in Corpus Linguistics. We thank Tanja and Jukka, as well as the general editors of RICL, for making this possible, and we hope that you enjoy reading the article! Please find the special issue here.
Invited talk at the UCL Survey of English Usage Seminar
February 2021
We are thankful to the Survey of English Usage at University College London for inviting Nele to talk at their virtual seminar. The talk was entitled "The London–Lund Corpus 2: A new resource for spoken English" and outlined some recent developments in the compilation of the corpus. UCL was also the main site of recording for LLC–2, so we were happy to be "back". Slides available on request!