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TY - JOUR
T1 - Language, sexuality and corpus linguistics
T2 - Concerns and future directions
AU - Baker, John Paul
N1 - This article has been accepted for publication in Journal of Language and Sexuality, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2018, pages: 263-279, © 2018 John Benjamins, the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use the material in any form.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In this paper I discuss the potential that corpus linguistics approaches have to make in terms of enabling research on language and sexuality. After giving some background relating to my involvement in the development of this approach and discussion of some of the benefits of using corpus linguistics, I then outline some potential areas for concern, including: misconceptions of the field as only quantitative, the danger of reading only concordance lines, over-reliance on the idea of removing bias, the tendency of corpus approaches to focus on difference or easily searchable features and issues with copyright and ethics. I then discuss potential future directions that the approach could take, focussing on work in non-western and non-English contexts, the development of new tools such as Lancsbox, and the integration of multimodal analyses, using examples from my own work and others.
AB - In this paper I discuss the potential that corpus linguistics approaches have to make in terms of enabling research on language and sexuality. After giving some background relating to my involvement in the development of this approach and discussion of some of the benefits of using corpus linguistics, I then outline some potential areas for concern, including: misconceptions of the field as only quantitative, the danger of reading only concordance lines, over-reliance on the idea of removing bias, the tendency of corpus approaches to focus on difference or easily searchable features and issues with copyright and ethics. I then discuss potential future directions that the approach could take, focussing on work in non-western and non-English contexts, the development of new tools such as Lancsbox, and the integration of multimodal analyses, using examples from my own work and others.
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - Sexuality
U2 - 10.1075/jls.17018.bak
DO - 10.1075/jls.17018.bak
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 263
EP - 279
JO - Journal of Language and Sexuality
JF - Journal of Language and Sexuality
SN - 2211-3770
IS - 2
ER -