Episode 58 - Vaclav Brezina and the new Frequency Dictionary of British English

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Show notes for Episode 58

Here are the show notes for Episode 58, in which Dan talks to Professor of Corpus Linguistics, Dr Vaclav Brezina of Lancaster University about:

The new Frequency Dictionary of British English
What certain words can tell us about a changing language
Using corpora to track change
Why we need more than just words to understand patterns of language change
Why media discourses around change might need to be treated with caution

Vaclav’s University page:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/vaclav-brezina

Some coverage of the research and the publication:

https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/news/article/sonew-dictionary-sheds-light-on-frequency-of-words-in-british-english

https://theconversation.com/tea-weather-and-being-on-time-analysis-of-100-million-words-reveals-what-brits-talk-about-most-222088

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/03/english-language-use-more-informal-words-linguistics/

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