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PART 1: Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics: Introduction

This video presents the key terminology for sociolinguistic exploration of corpora.

Vaclav Brezina introduces sociolinguistics and different approaches to language variation.

In the lecture, he makes reference to the BNC2014, a new corpus which is being developed at Lancaster University.

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Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

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