The idea of this special issue on Spoken language in time and across time emerged at an international symposium on this topic that we organised at Lund University on 20 September 2019. The purpose of the symposium was to celebrate important past and present achievements of spoken language research as well as past and present corpora available for such research. Some speakers reported on academic and technical advances from the past, while others offered information about state-of-the-art research on spoken language and spoken corpus compilation. Our idea with the symposium was also to bring together early career scholars, somewhat more senior scholars as well as senior scholars – the latter actually active when interest in spoken language and spoken corpus compilation was in its infancy. The type of spoken corpora in focus extended from the world's first publicly available, machine-readable spoken corpus, The London–Lund Corpus of Spoken English (Svartvik 1990), nowadays referred to as LLC–1, through to the spoken parts of The British National Corpora (BNC) from 1994 (BNC Consortium 2007) and 2014 (Love et al. 2017), The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (DCPSE) consisting of LLC–1 and the British component of The International Corpus of English (ICE–GB), Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE) (Du Bois et al. 2000–5), The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (Davies 2008–) and finally the most recent one, The London–Lund Corpus 2 (LLC–2) (Põldvere, Johansson & Paradis 2021a). The symposium thus covered approximately half a century of data from publicly available corpora compiled for multipurpose use by the academic community for research on spoken English in different contexts.

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跨时代的口语特刊：简介

本期特刊的构想及时和跨时间的口语出现在我们于 2019 年 9 月 20 日在隆德大学组织的关于该主题的国际研讨会上。研讨会的目的是庆祝口语研究的过去和现在的重要成就以及可用于此类研究的过去和现在的语料库。一些发言者报告了过去的学术和技术进步，而其他人则提供了有关口语和口语语料库汇编的最新研究的信息。我们这次研讨会的想法也是把早期的职业学者、更高级的学者以及高级学者聚集在一起——后者在对口语和口语语料库汇编的兴趣处于起步阶段时实际上很活跃。重点口语语料库的类型从世界上第一个公开的、机器可读的口语语料库扩展而来，伦敦-隆德英语口语语料库（Svartvik 1990），现在被称为 LLC-1，一直到口语部分英国国家语料库(BNC) 从 1994 (BNC Consortium 2007) 到 2014 (Love等。2017),当今英语口语的历时语料库(DCPSE) 由 LLC-1 和英国部分组成国际英语语料库(ICE-GB),圣巴巴拉美国英语口语语料库(SBCSAE) (杜波依斯)等。2000–5),当代美国英语语料库(COCA) (Davies 2008–) 最后是最近的一个，伦敦-隆德语料库 2(LLC-2) (Põldvere, Johansson & Paradis 2021a)。因此，研讨会涵盖了大约半个世纪以来公开可用的语料库中的数据，这些数据集为学术界的多用途使用而编制，用于研究不同背景下的英语口语。