Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics. She is currently based at the University of Extremadura. She became Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway in 2020. She has held different teaching positions at the Universities of Limerick (Ireland), University College Dublin (Ireland), Extremadura (Spain), and Bergen (Norway). Her research interests centre on the English spoken in Ireland with a more recent focus on historical sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Her work has also dealt with stylistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Her publications include articles and chapters dealing with these topics. She is the author, among others, of Orality in written texts: Using historical corpora to investigate Irish English (1700-1900), Routledge (2019); An Introduction to Irish English, Equinox (2010); the co-edited volumes Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics, Routledge (2024); Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research, Routledge (2022); Irish Identities: Sociolinguistic Perspectives -Mouton de Gruyter (2020); Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context -Palgrave-Macmillan (2017); Pragmatic Markers in Irish English (2015) -John Benjamins, and Fictionalising Orality, a special issue of the journal Sociolinguistic Studies (2011).

She is an associate member of CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies), and IVACS (Inter-Variational Applied Corpus Linguistics network), both at the University of Limerick. She is also a member of the research groups DING (English Dialectology and the History of the English Language), University of Salamanca; Language Data and Language Change (University of Bergen) and LINGLAP (the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Language at the University of Extremadura), which she was Director of until August 2020.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7411-1876

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ABSTRACT 

In recent years, linguists have focused on reconstructing earlier regional and social varieties of English through the quantitative analysis of emigrant letters and other written documents. As demonstrated in these studies this type of material can provide important, quantifiable data on certain features proper to a particular variety, thus allowing for the reconstruction of some of the features proper to that variety prior to the collection of spoken data. However, as this talk will show, the combination of quantitative data with more qualitative methods of analysis, is essential in the area of Historical Sociolinguistics.

The aim of my talk is to present CORVIZ (CORIECOR Visualized), a collaborative project between the universities of Bergen, Extremadura, Salamanca, and Newcastle that aims to create innovative ways of visually searching and exploiting the existing Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR).

The overarching aim of the CORVIZ project is to further our knowledge of how Irish English has evolved, focusing on the manner in which grammatical, pragmatic and lexical features are used diachronically. The Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) is a corpus of personal letters written between 1750-1940. The corpus contains some 4700 texts (approx. 3 million words), of which 4100 (2.5m words) are correspondence maintained between Irish emigrants and their relatives, friends and contacts. The letters were sent mainly between Ireland and other countries such as the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, Argentina and Australia, and therefore provide an empirical base for studies of historical change in Irish English and its contribution to other major overseas varieties. In order to explore the use of a corpus like this for the study of Irish English, the talk will show some recent findings.