Spanish idiolect data for nine Mexican Spanish speakers
Summary
Corpus of contemporary Mexican Spanish, collected in 2020. Nine participants, with linguistic data including emails, text messages, spoken interviews, and transcripts of work meetings for each participant.
Data types: Written, Spoken - transcript
Funders: European Research Council (ERC)
Associated AIFL centres: Centre for Forensic Text Analysis (FTA)
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Description
The participants in the corpus are six Mexican women and three Mexican men who were between 30 and 60 years old at the time of the sociolinguistic interview I administered in 2020; all were born and raised in central Mexico, and currently work as lecturers and/or researchers at a public university in Mexico City, where they also live; their native language is Spanish. They have a similar social background and share a community of practice. The data collection process involved obtaining the following linguistic data from each of the participants: 1. 30 text messages (specifically WhatsApp messages), amounting to a total of 6,122 tokens. All were written in 2020. 2. 30 emails, amounting to a total of 33,203 tokens. All were written between 2019 and 2020. 3. One semi-directed sociolinguistic interview with each participant, conducted by Dr Andrea Mojedano Batel between 2019 and 2020 and amounting to a total of nine interviews, 18,842 tokens, and 174 minutes of audio. The main conversational topic was food, although the interviewer also let the participants talk freely about any topic they chose; she also asked them questions in line with the principle of tangential shifting. 4. Transcripts of monthly work meetings in which the participants had been present and had spoken, amounting to a total of 844,104 tokens. These transcripts are in the public domain and fully accessible online. The meetings took place between 2008 and 2019, with people discussing university administrative matters. Not all participants took part in all meetings, that is, all participants were in at least some of the meetings in some of the years, and some of them were there for all years. Associated publications: Mojedano Batel, A., Soler Bonafont, A., & Kredens, K. (2024). Epistemic Modality Constructions as Stable Idiolectal Features: A Cross-genre Study of Spanish. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 37(2), 595-621. Mojedano Batel, A., Alberich, N., & Kredens, K. (2023). Estabilidad idiolectal a través de cuatro géneros de comunicación: aportaciones al análisis de autoría forense. Revista de Llengua i Dret, (79), 285-304.
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