Speech in the British Hansard

Alexander, M. (2023) Speech in the British Hansard. In: Korhonen, M., Kotze, H. and Tyrkkö, J. (eds.) Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse across Time and Space. Series: Studies in corpus linguistics (111). John Benjamins: Amsterdam, pp. 17-53. ISBN 9789027214065 (doi: 10.1075/scl.111.01ale)

Abstract

This chapter gives a detailed textual and linguistic history of Hansard, the records of debates of the British Parliament from 1803 to the present, and accordingly the Hansard Corpus. It analyses how Parliamentary speech is recorded and presented across that period, examining the changes in direct and indirect speech types arising from commercial factors, pressure from Parliament, editorial practice, and the availability and quality of source material. The chapter concludes with a breakdown, for each period of Hansard’s history, of what the data for that period does and does not represent.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Alexander, Professor Marc
• Authors: Alexander, M.
• Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain; P Language and Literature > PE English; Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics
• Research Centre: Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) > Creative Economies and Cultural Transformation
• Publisher: John Benjamins
• ISBN: 9789027214065
• Published Online: 13 November 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 John Benjamins
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
307779		Philip Leverhulme Prize	Marc Alexander	Leverhulme Trust (LEVERHUL)	PLP-2019-241	Arts - English Language and Linguistics