Publications

Books and edited volumes

Brookes, G., Curry, N., & Love, R. (Eds.) (in press). Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts. Cambridge University Press.

Ahmed, F., Giovanelli, M., Godfrey, C., Harrison, C., Love, R., Mansworth, M., Pihlaja, S., & Wydrzynska, E. (2026). Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide. Routledge.

Boucher, A., Giovanelli, M., Harrison, C., Love, R., & Godfrey, C. (2024). Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.

Love, R. (2020). Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction: The Spoken British National Corpus 2014. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. Routledge.

Brezina, V., Love, R., & Aijmer, K. (Eds.) (2018). Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic studies of the Spoken BNC2014. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. Routledge.

Journal articles

Love, R. (2024). Introduction: Innovation in spoken corpus linguistics. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), i-viii. DOI: 10.32714/ricl.12.02.01

Love, R., & Stenström, A-B. (2023). Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 216, 167-181. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2023.08.008

Love, R., Darics, E., & Palmieri, R. (2023). Engaging the public: English local government organisations’ social media communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100060

Curry, N., Love, R., & Goodman, O. (2022). Adverbs on the move: investigating publisher application of corpus research on recent language change to ELT coursebook development. Corpora, 17(1), 1-38. DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0233

Love, R., Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2022). Corpora in applied linguistics: Broadening the agenda. Language Teaching, 55(1), 139-141. DOI: 10.1017/S0261444821000331

Love, R., & Wright, D. (2021). Specifying challenges in transcribing covert recordings: Implications for forensic transcription. Frontiers in Communication. DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.797448

Love, R., & Curry, N. (2021). Recent change in modality in informal spoken British English: 1990s – 2010s, English Language and Linguistics, 25(3), 537-562. DOI: 10.1017/S1360674321000265

Deignan, A., & Love, R. (2021). Using corpus methods to identify subject specific uses of polysemous words in English secondary school science materials. Corpora, 16(2), 165-189. DOI: 10.3366/cor.2021.0216

Love, R. (2021). Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s – 2010s. Text and Talk, 41(5-6), 739-762. DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0051

Love, R., Hawtin, A., Brezina, V., McEnery, T., Hardie, A., & Dembry, C. (2019). Register variation and the Spoken BNC2014: Implications from corpus design. Register Studies, 1(2), 296-317. DOI: 10.1075/rs.18013.lov

Love, R., Dembry, C., Hardie, A., Brezina, V., & McEnery, T. (2017). The Spoken BNC2014: designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22(3), 319-344. DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.22.3.02lov

McEnery, T., Love, R., & Brezina, V. (2017). Introduction: Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22(3), 311-318. DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.22.3.01mce

Love, R., & Baker, P. (2015). The hate that dare not speak its name? In M. Kopytowska (Ed.), Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict, 3(1), 57-86. DOI: 10.1075/jlac.3.1.03lov

McEnery, T., McGlashan, M., & Love, R. (2015). Press and social media reaction to ideologically inspired murder: The case of Lee Rigby. Discourse and Communication, 9(2), 1-23. DOI: 10.1177/1750481314568545

Book chapters

Love, R. (in press). ‘The British National Corpora’. In C. Montgomery, & E. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of British Englishes. Oxford University Press.

Fišer, D., Erjavec, T., & Love, R. (in press). ‘Collecting data and building a corpus’. In M. Mahlberg, G. Brookes, & N. Curry (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Bloomsbury.

Brookes, G., Curry, N., & Love, R. (in press). ‘Applying corpus linguistics’. In G. Brookes, N. Curry, & R. Love (Eds.), Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts. Cambridge University Press.

Love, R., & Põldvere, N. (2026). ‘Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora’. In R. Sandow, & N. Braber (Eds.), Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English. Routledge.

Love, R., & Busso, L. (2024). ‘Choosing and building corpora to investigate representation’. In F. Heritage, & C. Taylor (Eds.), Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook (pp. 66-83). Routledge.

Baker, P., & Love, R. (2018). ‘Corpus linguistics and sexuality’. In K. Hall, & R. Barrett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press.

Brezina, V., Love, R., & Aijmer, K. (2018). ‘Corpus Linguistics and sociolinguistics’. In V. Brezina, R. Love, & K. Aijmer (Eds.), Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic studies of the Spoken BNC2014 (pp. 3-9). Routledge.

McEnery, T., & Love, R. (2018). ‘Bad language’. In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak, & T. McEnery (Eds.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury.

Edited special issues

Love, R. (Ed.). (2024). Special issue: “Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora”. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2). DOI: 10.32714/ricl.12.02

McEnery, T., Love, R., & Brezina, V. (Eds). (2017). Special issue: “Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014”. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22(3), 311-455. DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.22.3

Reviews

Love, R. (2022). Review of Perez-Parades, P. (2021). Corpus Linguistics for Education: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. English for Specific Purposes, 64, 1-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.02.003

Love, R. (2019). Review of Harrington, K. (2018). The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community: Survival Communication. London: Routledge. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 25(4). DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.00018.lov

Internet publications

Love, R. (Ed.) (2025). BAAL News, 126 (Autumn 2025). British Association for Applied Linguistics. [Available here].

Love, R. (Ed.) (2025). Corpus Linguistics 2025: Book of Abstracts. Aston University. [Available here].

Love, R. (Ed.) (2025). BAAL News, 125 (Spring 2025). British Association for Applied Linguistics. [Available here].

Love, R., Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2021). Reporting from “Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda”. BAAL News, 119 (Summer 2021). British Association for Applied Linguistics. [Available here].

Lanes, A., Love, R., Kalman, B., Brenchley, M., & Pickles, M. (2019). Updating the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary vocabulary lists. Research Notes. Cambridge Assessment English. [Available here].

Love, R. (2018). The Spoken British National Corpus 2014: design, compilation and analysis. [Doctoral Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University. [Available here].

Love, R., Hawtin, A., & Hardie, A. (2017). The British National Corpus 2014 User Manual and Reference Guide. ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. [Available here].

Hardie, A., & Love, R. (Eds.) (2013). Corpus Linguistics 2013: Abstract Book. UCREL. [Available here].

Resources

Boucher, A., Giovanelli, M., Harrison, C., Love, R., & Godfrey, C. (2024). The Aston Lockdown Reading Survey Corpus. [Dataset]. Aston University. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000602

McEnery, T., Love, R., Hardie, A., Brezina, V., Dembry, C., & Timperley, M. (2017). The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 [Dataset]. Lancaster University. Available from: corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014