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Mick Short is Professor of English
Language and Literature, and joint Project Director along with Elena
Semino and Tony McEnery. 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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Elena Semino is Senior Lecturer in the
Linguistics Department and joint Project
Director. With Mick Short she was responsible for the previous
SW&TP project, investigating the nature of speech, thought and
writing presentation in a corpus of fictional and non-fictional
written texts. 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 project.
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Tony McEnery is Professor of
English Language and Linguistics, and joint Project Director. He has
been involved with corpus building and exploitation at Lancaster for
over ten years, and was involved with the project to compile the
British National Corpus. In addition to working on the SW&TP
Spoken corpus he is also managing the EMILLE project at Lancaster.
Among his publications are Computational Linguistics (Sigma
Press 1992), and, with Andrew Wilson, Corpus Linguistics (2nd
edition: Edinburgh UP 2001).
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John Heywood was a Research
Assistant on the project, working on the building and tagging of the
corpus. He is currently doing PhD research in stylistics.
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Dan McIntyre was a Research
Assistant on the project and, with John Heywood, was involved in
building and tagging the corpus of spoken data. He is now a lecturer in English language at Liverpool Hope University College.
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| We are also grateful to Carol Bellard-Thomson,
who worked on the project in its early stages and was responsible
for collating and scanning transcripts, and digitising sound files
of spoken data, taken from archives held at the Centre
for North West Regional Studies at Lancaster University.
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