Publications

Books and edited volumes

Brookes, G., Curry, N., & Love, R. (Eds.) (under contract). Applications of Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boucher, A., Giovanelli, M., Harrison, C., & Love, R. (under contract). Reading Habits in the Covid Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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

Journal articles

Stenström, A-B., & Love, R. (in review). Is fuck getting weaker? Recent change in teenagers’ use of fuck in British English. Journal of Pragmatics.

Love, R., Darics, E., & Palmieri, R. (in review). Engaging the public: local government organisations’ social media communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics.

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 (Research Topic: ‘Capturing talk: The institutional practices surrounding the transcription of spoken language’). 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) (Special Issue: ‘Corpus Linguistics across the Generations: In Memory of Geoffrey Leech’), 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) (Special Issue: ‘Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014’), 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) (Special Issue: ‘Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014’), 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) (Special Issue: ‘Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres’), 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., & Busso, L. (in review). Choosing and building corpora to investigate representation. In F. Heritage, & C. Taylor (Eds.), An Introduction to Corpus and Discourse Studies: Analyzing Representation.

Love, R. (in review). The British National Corpora. In C. Montgomery, & E. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of British Englishes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Baker, P., & Love, R. (in press). Corpus linguistics and sexuality. In K. Hall, & R. Barrett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: 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). New York: 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.). London: Palgrave.

Edited special issues

Love, R. (Ed). (forthcoming). Special issue: “Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora”. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(1).

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., Brookes, G., & Curry, N. (2021). Reporting from “Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda”. BAAL News, 119 (Summer 2021). York: 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: Cambridge Assessment English. [Available here].

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

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

Resources

McEnery, T., Love, R., Hardie, A., Brezina, V., Dembry, C., & Timperley, M. (2017). The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 [freely-accessible corpus]. Lancaster: ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Available at: corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014