This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed understanding of corpus linguistic methodology more broadly.

Robbie Love is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds, with research interests in applied and corpus linguistics. He completed his PhD at Lancaster University in 2018, where he was lead researcher in the development of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. Before moving to Leeds, he held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge Assessment English, where he worked on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus. He is co-editor of "Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech" (Routledge, 2018).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I BEFORE CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND DESIGN

Chapter 2: Why a new Spoken BNC and why now?

Chapter 3: Theoretical challenges in corpus design

Part II DURING CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY MEETS PRACTICE

Chapter 4: Challenges in data collection

Chapter 5: Challenges in transcription, part I - conventions

Chapter 6: Challenges in transcription, part II - who said what?

Chapter 7: Challenges in corpus processing and dissemination

Part III AFTER CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: EVALUATING THE CORPUS

Chapter 8: Evaluating the Spoken BNC2014

Chapter 9: Conclusions and further construction work