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Hunston 109-23; 128-34

pp. 109-123

LGBT parents / children: SLTrib / DesNews

1. Briefly summarize (1-2 sentences) each of the studies mentioned on page 110.

  • Teubert: Euro-scepticism

  • Flowerdew: Hong-Kong English

  • Fairclough: New Labour Party

  • Morrison-Love: Zimbabwe "people"

2. How do these studies differ from what we've done to this point?

3. Are they primarily qualitative or quantitative?

4. What tools could best to used to carry out such studies?

5. Briefly describe the type of qualitative studies carried out by Stubbs (pp 117-120)

  • Stubbs: X close factories, etc

  • Stubbs: unemployed / unemployment

  • Stubbs: single parent families /unwed / unmarried mothers

Other searches:

  • family: collocates

  • intellectual(s)

  • man|woman + collocates

  • words for women

  • words for African-Americans over time

  • words for "handicapped" (older term) over time

  • nationalities (German, China, French, Canada (??))

  • COHA: language change and culture

Other possible topics:

  • Recent: Church's policy on LGBT parents and their children

  • (Law) Religion, Supreme Court, immigration

  • COHA: women, religion, food, fast, etc

  • Evangelical vs Catholic vs LDS

  • Democratic vs Republican

  • Hansard Corpus

  • Google Books (Standard); Culturomics (readings)

  • +/- abortion

  • others??


Word clouds:

General Conference (another) (1970-present)

Reagan vs Trump

Inauguration (another)

Obama: State of the Union (+ response)