The second issue of volume 12 (2024) of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) is available online. This is an issue guest edited by Robbie Love (Aston University) which includes a compilation of fantastic articles intended to shed new light on "Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora". Please, visit our website to see the whole volume. The table of contents can be found below.
With best wishes,
Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Carlos Prado-Alonso
Editors of RiCL
Articles
Introduction: Innovation in spoken corpus linguistics. Robbie Love
“We’ve lost you Ian”: Multi-modal corpus innovations in capturing, processing and analysing professional online spoken interactions. Anne O'Keeffe, Dawn Knight, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr, Sandrine Peraldi
Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. Elizabeth Hanks, Tony McEnery, Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, Paul Baker, Vaclav Brezina, Gavin Brookes, Isobelle Clarke, Raffaella Bottini
Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories. Sarah Moeller, Alexis Davis, Wilermine Previlon, Michael Bottini, Kevin Tang
Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the Spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect. Nicholas Smith, Cristiano Broccias, Cathleen Waters
Rethinking interviews as representations of spoken language in learner corpora. Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark
Developing a coding scheme for annotating opinion statements in L2 interactive spoken English with application for language teaching and assessment. Yejin Jung, Dana Gablasova, Vaclav Brezina, Hanna Schmück
Corpus as a slice of life: Representing naturally occurring language and its speakers. Giorgia Troiani, John W. Du Bois, Andrey Filchenko
Design and construction of a social media corpus: Influencers’ speech in vlogs. Hülya Mısır
Book Reviews
Review of Gillings, Mathew, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker. 2023. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-16815-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168144. Tamsin Parnell
Review of Brookes, Gavin and Luke C. Collins. 2023. Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-003-09965-9 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099659. Ovidia Martínez Sánchez
Review of Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. 2022. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English. A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN: 978-3-11079-2201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294. Daniel Granados-Meroño
Review of Izquierdo, Marlén and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar eds. 2023. Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the Way for Teaching, Translation and Professional Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-21430-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113. Isabel Pizarro-Sánchez
Review of Viana, Vander ed. 2023. Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-032-25297-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833. Gaëtanelle Gilquin