The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications

Cantos, Pascual

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“…These obstacles in the historical sociolinguistic practice have largely been overcome thanks to the assistance of Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Social History, which have conferred empirical reliability upon the discipline (see Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg 2003 Cantos & Sánchez 2000;Cantos 2012). The compilation of large electronic corpora (both computerdriven and research-driven) -containing collections of naturally occurring language data -has also been highly instrumental in overcoming some of the problems inherent to working with 'bad data' from the past and the historical paradox Bauer 2002;Schneider 2002;Bergs 2007b;Baker 2010;Murphy 2010;or Cantos 2012or Cantos , 2013.…”

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Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

Espinosa

Campoy²

2021

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Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context

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Section: Historical Sociolinguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

Espinosa

Campoy²

2021

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Historical sociolinguistics

Conde-Silvestre¹

Handbook of Pragmatics

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The treatment of social meaning in sociolinguistic variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variables and the macrosociological categories of socioeconomic class, sex, class, ethnicity, and age. The second wave employed ethnographic methods to explore the local categories and configurations that inhabit, or constitute, these broader categories. In both waves, variation was seen as marking social categories. This article sets out a theoretical foundation for the third wave, arguing that (a) variation constitutes a robust social semiotic system, potentially expressing the full range of social concerns in a given community; (b) the meanings of variables are underspecified, gaining more specific meanings in the context of styles, and (c) variation does not simply reflect, but also constructs, social meaning and hence is a force in social change. 87

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Historical sociolinguistics

Conde-Silvestre¹

2022

Handbook of Pragmatics

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The Use of Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Linguistic Variation and Change: Types and Computational Applications

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

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Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

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