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In this chapter, I describe the rationale and theoretical basis for the design of the Network of Eighteenth-Century English Texts (NEET) corpus housed in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield (currently at three million words). The NEET corpus is an unconventional corpus in a number of respects: it samples but does not represent the written language produced in England within a period of about 100 years; it contains all or at least a sizeable sample of the written repertoire of a network of individuals who were selected for inclusion primarily by virtue of their social connections with a single person, the essayist Joseph Addison.
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Fitzmaurice, S. (2007). Questions of standardization and representativeness in the development of social networks- based corpora: The story of the network of eighteenth-century english texts. In: Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. (eds) Creating and digitizing language corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223202_3
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