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Determining the Impact of Education and Socioeconomic Status on Linguistic Choices in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Karen CorriganORCiD

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Abstract

This chapter explores the idea introduced in Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg (2003/2017) that uncovering historical linguistic change in legacy texts from earlier periods of English relies on the retrieval of accurate metadata and an approach to them that is informed by a wide array of different fields of scholarship. Of particular concern is applying this orientation to achieve a deeper understanding of the interplay between linguistic choices and social status in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR). The latter is an open access “big data” digital corpus consisting of letters pertaining to Ireland composed between the 17th and early 20th centuries. The CORIECOR Visualized project has permitted us to enhance the dataset such that queries with respect to specific social characteristics of the writers that are potentially pertinent to charting the progress of linguistic changes over geographical, social and temporal space can be automatically quantified and visualised


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Author(s): Amador-Moreno CP, Corrigan KP

Editor(s): Amador-Moreno CP; Haumann D; Peters A

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics

Year: 2023

Pages: 11-33

Print publication date: 22/12/2023

Online publication date: 22/12/2023

Acceptance date: 02/04/2023

Series Title: Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group

Place Published: London

URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003360285-3

DOI: 10.4324/9781003360285-3

Notes: 9781003360285 ebook ISBN.

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ISBN: 9781032418995


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