Full Description
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book develops similar standards for enriching and preserving 'unconventional' data': the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history.
Contents
Notes on Contributors Foreword: S.Poplack Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Diachronic Corpora; J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan & H.L.Moisl A Linguistic "Time Capsule": The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English; W.Allen, J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan, W.Maguire & H.L.Moisl Questions of Standardization and Representativeness in the Development of Social Networks Based Corpora: The Story of the Network of Eighteenth-Century English Texts; S.M.Fitzmaurice The ONZE Corpus; E.Gordon, M.Maclagan & J.Hay Tracking Dialect History: A Corpus of Irish-English; R.Hickey The Manuscript-Based Diachronic Corpus of Scottish Correspondence; A.Meurman-Solin Historical Sociolinguistics: The Corpus of Early English Correspondence; H.Raumolin-Brunberg & T.Nevalainen Revealing Alternatives: On-Line Comparative Translations of Interlinked Chinese Historical Texts; N.Standen & F.Jones The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose; A.Taylor A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose; L.van Bergen & D.Denison Index
