Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy (r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2006 - 14:16:30 MET

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    Hi Martin,

    Excellent point!

    But I think it's just that the personal anecdote is at the tip of
    one's brain when
    reading emails, whereas the 'corpus-lookup' is not an immediate option...

    ...and there is no obvious parallel corpus of Br-Am Eng to consult...
    Do you know of one by any chance...

    ..as it's a topic that Constantin and I started working on a bit
    (eg Complex01 at B'ham Uni - the Globalization of Business English),
    and hope to continue at some point in the future ..

    Consulting research papers is also not an immediate option;
    I probably have several on this topic, but to remember which ones,
    and to locate them would not be a trivial task...
    so perhaps we will get the more considered, academic replies
    in a few days' time?
    :-)

    Best
    Ramesh

    At 09:56 09/11/2006, you wrote:
    >I find it fascinating that as soon as we find a linguistic topic
    >which sparks the interest of everyone here, the discussion suddenly
    >makes hardly any reference to corpora. Why are suddenly anecdotes,
    >intuitions, folk theories and made-up examples preferable to
    >consulting corpora?
    >
    >It's a serious question. It seems to me reasonable to bring in these
    >other factors and pieces of evidence to inform a discussion about
    >corpus linguistics, but why is almost no-one consulting a corpus, or
    >consulting research papers based on corpora? Lack of resources? Lack
    >of tools? Don't think that use of corpora is appropriate for this question?
    >
    >Martin
    >
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    Ramesh Krishnamurthy

    Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,
    Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
    [Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building] ; Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ;
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