Section outline

    • Lecture presentation File
    • Reading assignment: 12 File

      McEnery, T., Xiao, R. & Tono, Y. (2006): Swearing in modern British English. In Corpus-Based Language Studies, Routledge, pp. 264-286.

    • Reading assignment: discussion

      •What are the most frequent methods to be used in corpus-based sociolinguistics?
      •Can you see a difference between CADS and sociolinguistics?
      •What sociolinguistic variables are usually encoded in spoken corpora?
      •How would you sample a spoken corpus of your language?
      •Is there a clear social class distinction in your country?
      •How can swearing be analyzed from a sociolinguistic perspective?
      •Is there a similarly “universal” swear word as fuck in your mother tongue?