Corpus approaches to contemporary British speech : sociolinguistic studies of the spoken BNC2014 Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up and coming scholars this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014 a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short introductions highlighting the state of the art in three major areas of corpus based sociolinguistics while the remaining chapters feature rigorous analysis of the research outcomes of the project grounded in Spoken BNC2014 data samples highlighting English used in everyday situations in the UK with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. This unique and robust dataset allows this team of researchers the unique opportunity to focus on speaker characteristics such as gender age dialect and socio economic status to examine a range of sociolinguistic dimensions including grammar pragmatics and discourse and to reflect on the major changes that have occurred in British society since the last corpus was compiled in the 1990s. This dynamic new contribution to the burgeoning field of corpus based sociolinguistics is key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics corpus linguistics pragmatics grammar and British English Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics: introducing the Spoken BNC2014 Vaclav Brezina Robbie Love and Karin Aijmer The Spoken BNC 2014: corpus linguistic perspective Tony McEnery Current British English: sociolinguistic perspective Beatrix Busse Analysing the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb Andrew Hardie Politeness variation in England: a north south divide Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings Thats well bad : some new intensifiers in spoken British English Karin Aijmer Canonical tag questions in contemporary British English Karin Axelsson Yeah yeah yeah or yeah no thats right: a multifactorial analysis of the selection of backchannel structures in British English Deanna Wong and Haidee Kruger Variation in the productivity of adjective comparison in present day English Tanja Säily Victorina González Díaz and Jukka Suomela The dative alternation revisited: fresh insights from contemporary spoken data Gard Jenset Barbara McGillivray and Michael Rundell You still talking to me : The Zero auxiliary progressive in spoken British English twenty years on Andrew Caines Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery You can just give those documents to myself : untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English Laura L. Paterson