Desert Island Discs Corpus: Guest speaker classifications (1960s, 1980s, 2000s)

This file lists guest speakers who were sampled in a study by Nicholas Smith of language use in the BBC Radio show Desert Island Discs. Article title: 'Conversationalization and democratization in a radio chat show: A grammar-led investigation', to be published in Language Sciences in 2020. Corpus design by Nicholas Smith and Cathleen Waters. Speaker classifications by sex, age, occupation and education categories are given for four periods: two periods (1960s, early 1980s) with Roy Plomley as host, and two periods (late 1980s and early 2000s) with Sue Lawley as host. Also included is the start time of each recording sampled. Word counts obtained by Wmatrix (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/).

本文件列出了一项针对BBC广播节目《荒岛唱片》（Desert Island Discs）中语言使用的研究所采样的特邀嘉宾，该研究由尼古拉斯·史密斯（Nicholas Smith）主导。相关论文标题为《广播谈话节目中的会话化与民主化：一项以语法为导向的探究》，将于2020年发表于《语言科学》（Language Sciences）期刊。语料库设计由尼古拉斯·史密斯与凯瑟琳·沃特斯（Cathleen Waters）共同完成。研究按性别、年龄、职业与教育类别对嘉宾进行了分类，涵盖四个时段：由罗伊·普罗姆利（Roy Plomley）主持的两个时期（20世纪60年代、20世纪80年代初），以及由苏·劳利（Sue Lawley）主持的两个时期（20世纪80年代末与21世纪初）。此外，本文件还包含每份采样录音的起始时间。词数统计由Wmatrix工具完成（http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/）。