English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English· 2015Q1
Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)
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The new 1.9 billion-word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE), comprising 1.8 million web pages from 20 countries, enables the study of linguistic variation across dialects.
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Key points
- The GloWbE corpus contains 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages.
- Data is sourced from 20 different English-speaking countries.
- About 60% of the corpus consists of informal blog content.
- The corpus facilitates the study of linguistic variation across dialects, including lexis, morphology, syntax, and meaning.
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Abstract
In this paper, we provide an overview of the new GloWbE Corpus — the Corpus of Global Web-based English. GloWbE is based on 1.9 billion words in 1.8 million web pages from 20 different English-speaking countries. Approximately 60 percent of the corpus comes from informal blogs, and the rest from a wide range of other genres and text types. Because of its large size, its architecture and interface, the corpus can be used to examine many types of variation among dialects, which might not be possible with other corpora — including variation in lexis, morphology, (medium- and low-frequency) syntactic constructions, variation in meaning, as well as discourse and its relationship to culture.
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