British English Corpus, 2021

Corpus linguistics is a British success story, revolutionising language analysis and teaching through computer-assisted examination of vast datasets. Since 2013, the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science has extended this method beyond linguistics to social sciences, tackling issues like hate crime, climate change, financial reporting, and education. It has also developed freely accessible tools and resources, establishing itself as a global leader.

This dataset is a one-million-word sample of written British English across 15 different genres/registers. It follows the Brown family sampling structure and is available for searches and data visualisations via #LancsBox (https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk) as a subcorpus of a lager Brown family corpus.