The corpus data can be accessed via dropbox at this link:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uer2ejj2gveymmr/AAAzM8v_bQ4jEuzrEDP-RGkga?dl=0

 

 

There is  very good freeware concordancer at: http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

You can either access the whole corpus (mastercorpus.txt) or access the corpus 'box by box': the Worktown papers were organised into boxes according to topic (e.g. pubs, sport, politics) and I have followed this system for the corpus.  It means that some boxes will be bigger than others simply because there was more spoken data in them.  The numbering of the boxes is not consecutive as some boxes had no spoken data at all.  The advantage of this system is that if you want more contextual detail for the spoken data you can go to the appropriate box in the archive.

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