This article offers a critical review of a methodology often employed in corpusbased
sociolinguistic studies which make use of aggregate data. This methodology relies on a …

Variationist sociolinguistics emphasises the importance of analysing language in its social
context and treats language use as the central object of study. The systematic focus on …

As discussed in Chapter 1, the term 'Cockney'is difficult to define and it has become
increasingly more difficult in an area which is now described as 'the world in a city'(Greater …

Corpus linguistics is more often than not associated with large-scale collections of spoken or
written data, representing genres, varieties or contexts of use. Many of these have been …

“Youth language” is labile, contingent and transient, subject to fashion, serving as a badge
of nonconformity, but above all constructing for its speakers a set of complex identities for …

The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of attitudes towards Multicultural
London English (MLE), the multiethnolect spoken in England's main metropolis. An online …

Recent work on London English has found innovation in inner city areas, most likely as the
outcome of dialect contact. These innovations are shared by speakers of different ethnic …

An aspect of corpus compilation that poses a particular challenge is the question of how to
transcribe orthographically units that are not part of any standardised vocabulary. Among the …

This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in
casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a …

1.1 Background Discourse marker research today still faces many terminological and
theoretical issues which restrain progress in the field, despite the multiplicity of theoretical …