Corpus Linguistics for Oral History 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:
- Establishes a framework to pursue this type of research and guides the reader through tasks that will ensure practical application
- Shows how oral narratives can facilitate historical linguistics, including historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics
- Illustrates how the techniques of corpus linguistics can help social historians to analyse oral narratives in new and fruitful ways
- 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 CL techniques
- Includes an appendix of resources and examples of extracts from a global range of historical texts throughout, introducing the read
