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/).

本文件收录了尼古拉斯·史密斯针对英国广播公司（BBC）广播节目《荒岛唱片》（Desert Island Discs）的语言使用开展的一项研究中所抽样的客座嘉宾。该研究对应的论文标题为《广播谈话节目中的会话化与民主化：一项以语法为导向的考察》，将于2020年发表于《语言科学》（Language Sciences）期刊。本语料库的设计工作由尼古拉斯·史密斯与凯瑟琳·沃特斯共同完成。数据集按性别、年龄、职业与受教育程度对嘉宾进行分类，涵盖四个时期的样本：两期为罗伊·普洛姆利（Roy Plomley）担任主持人的时期（20世纪60年代、20世纪80年代初），另外两期为苏·劳利（Sue Lawley）担任主持人的时期（20世纪80年代末、21世纪初）。此外，还提供了每条抽样录音的起始时间。词汇计数通过Wmatrix工具完成（工具网址：http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/）。