Who do you think you are? Forms of address in the Wellington Corpus of Spoken English
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v1i1.585Abstract
In addition to our given names, what we call ourselves and each other can say a lot about who we are, where we belong and what we do. The names which occur in large collections of spoken or written text produced by many individuals in a community can also reveal something of how that wider community sees itself. The Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English is a one-million-word collection of spoken texts of New Zealanders talking to and about each other in the early 1990s. This snapshot of spoken New Zealand English contains over 500 samples of transcribed speech, each sample containing about 2,000 words. The whole collection is intended to be a fairly representative sample from the total population. Three-quarters of the texts are of informal conversations, face-to-face or on the telephone.
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