The John Swales Conference Corpus
The JSCC is a small corpus of conference transcripts, made available for the study of academic discourse in specialized contexts. It is now available as a freely downloadable file (see below).
The John Swales Conference Corpus (JSCC) is a collection of transcripts from an academic conference held in honour of John Swales hosted by the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor in June 2006. JSCC contains both lectures and question and answer sessions, amounting to around 100,000 words.
The recommended JSCC citation is: John Swales Conference Corpus (2009). Ann Arbor, MI: The Regents of the University of Michigan.
A short history and description of this corpus.
Click here to get access to the transcripts of the conference. They are divided into 23 separate files, each containing one speaker’s presentation and the corresponding Question-and-Answer session.
This page summarizes the spelling and punctuation system behind the JSCC transcripts.
A resource list of research and findings based on the JSCC.
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