Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus

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title
  • Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • Lancaster SW&TP Spoken Corpus
creator
  • compiler Family and Social Life archive in the Centre for North West Regional Studies at Lancaster University
  • researcher Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature
  • researcher Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department and joint Project Director
subject
  • speech, writing and thought presentation (SW&TP) in contemporary spoken British English
  • a corpus of conversations and oral narratives
subject.linguisticField
  • text_and_corpus_linguistics
  • sociolinguistics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus has been built as part of an AHRB-funded project to investigate the nature of speech, writing and thought presentation (SW&TP) in contemporary spoken British English.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • originally recorded on tape, then transferred to .wav files
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • dialogue
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter tagged transcripts
  • analysis_parameter speaker information (gender, age, occupation, marital status, spouse's occupation, father's and mother's occupation)
  • analysis_parameter Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation tagging information
publisher
contributor
  • sponsor AHRB-funded project
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
  • dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
  • professional
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
  • child
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
  • narrative
  • interactive_discourse
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • speech interviews
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
  • PS201: He was a good arguer was he?
    PS210: Oh oh yes yes. I remember I went to Birmingham, I'd been out of work here and I went to Birmingham Carriage & Wagon Company they'd got five Pullman coaches for Chatham & South Eastern as it was then and they were in satin wood. Well they were only carriage finishers they they couldn't clean work veneer no and clean it up and there were about six of us went from here. And while I went in February and while I was down there machinists were out at Waring & Gillows for about six week and they only got an ha'penny an hour when it was settled. Ha'penny. Not this ere ten pound they're getting today, that was two shilling a week.Eh? And later on I talked to Tom Smith who was Secretary of this union and he told me he said Well during one time we were in this Athenaeum Hotel,
    he said,

    on dispute
    and your father was making a point to Hughes
    who was Manager
    and Hughes said

    he was he was sneering at him.


    He said,

    He didn't detract your father
    your father kept on with his point till he put it all
    and then he surned he turned back on Hughes.
    He said,
    You should have seen Hughes he was like a rat in a trap
    he said

    You've accused me of coming here,
    look I'm representing
    you've accused me of
    sneering at you sir,

    I'm here on responsible business representing a body of men
    and he said
    I'm not going to have
    you say
    I'm sneering at you


    And he said

    he slated him and before before he'd finished
    Hughes was saying,
    What will you have Charlie, will you have any drink on th' house? any tobacco?
    He said, he knocked his hand away
    and said,

    You accuse me of
    sneering at you



    said my daddy
    I repudiate it, I'm not having it.
    I'm here repre as a representative representing a body of men. I only want fair deals.
    As I say Hughes always respected me father.
type.sample
format.extent
  • approximately 250,000
format.medium
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • the spoken demographic section of the British National Corpus (BNC - World edition)
  • an oral history archive stored in the Centre for North West Regional Studies (CNWRS) at Lancaster University
language
  • English
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • Interviews done in the mid-1970s, with respondents recalling the period 1890-1940.
  • Interviews done in the mid-1980s, with respondents recalling the period 1940-1970.
coverage.spacial
  • Preston, Barrow or Lancaster, UK
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