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The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Written Corpus

 

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Photograph of Mick Short Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature, and, along with Elena Semino, was joint Project Director of the SW&TP Written Corpus project. He is the author of Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (Longman 1996), and, with Geoffrey Leech, Style in Fiction (Longman 1981) in which the cline of speech and thought presentation that has been developed in the two corpus-based SW&TP projects at Lancaster was first presented.

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Photograph of Elena Semino Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department and with Mick Short was joint Project Director of the SW&TP Written Corpus project. She is the author of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (Longman 1997) and, with Mick Short, is currently writing a book on the SW&TP Written Corpus.

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Photograph of Martin Wynne Martin Wynne was a Research Assistant on the Written Corpus project, working on the construction and annotation of the corpus. He is now Head of the Oxford Text Archive.

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