Links

Links of Interest: A Sampler

LaBB-CAT            http://onzeminer.sourceforge.net

            LaBB-CAT is this site's manager: it is a browser-based research tool that stores            

            time-aligned transcripts for audio and video, and annotations which can be automatic

            or manual. Developed by Robert Fromont and Jen Hay for the Origins of New Zealand

            English Project, it is also the repository for the New Zealand  Institute of Language,

            Brain and Behavior. Open source; downloadable.

Waring Historical Library            http://waring.library.musc.edu

            The Waring Historical Library houses the Special Collections and Rare Books for

            The Medical University of South Carolina.

Densho            http://www.densho.org

            Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project exemplifies a thematic and

            historical oral history site  which combines first person accounts of incarcerated

            Japanese Americans with historical images and interdisciplinary lessons.

British Library Sound          http://sounds.bl.uk

            Archival sound recordings at the British Library: often includes special exhibits

Healthtalk            http://www.healthtalkonline.org

            Video, text and audio clips of interviews about health and illness experiences

Youthhealthtalk            http://www.youthhealthtalk.org

            Video, text and audio clips from young people talking about their health; forums

Qualidata             http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/about/introduction.asp

             A service of the UK Data Archive, with resources, deposits and training available.

OHA            http://www.oralhistory.org

            Primary organization of oral historians in the US; includes guidelines, resources,

            publications and featured sites.

Story Corps            http://storycorps.org

            National project helping everyday citizens to share their stories.

Writing, Aging and Spirit            http://writingdownouryears.ca

            Headed by researcher Ellen Bouchard Ryan, this site promotes writing

            in later life, including issues of life review, life stories, and intergenerational

            communication

Life Review Project          http://www.umsl.edu/~meusert/LifeReview/Links.html

            Life reviews explained and collected

Antaki/CA                        http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/ssca1/sitemenu.htm

            Outstanding tutorial by scholar Charles Antaki on conversation analysis

Goodwin/Discourse            http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/

            Excellent articles and videoclips on discourse analysis, including of aphasia, by

            scholar, Charles Goodwin

Politeness            http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/ssca1/sitemenu.htm;                                                                                          http://research.shu.ac.uk/politeness/

            Tutorial on traditional politeness theory; Linguistics Politeness Research Group

Lee:  Corpus links            http://tiny.cc/corpora

            David Lee's Bookmarks for corpus linguistics

Mark Davies: corpora            http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/

            8 (at last count in 2011) searchable online corpora of American and British

            English, Spanish and Portuguese