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Access to the Linguistic Landscape Corpus is only available through the Lancaster University CQPweb server. To register for a free CQPweb account follow these steps.

1. Please read the User License below.

Linguistic Landscape Corpus (LLC) User License

The LLC is a publicly-accessible resource. Anyone may freely access it for non-commercial research. However, many of the materials within the corpus are not in the public domain, with copyrights owned by various publishing companies and individuals. By registering for a CQPweb account and accessing the LLC, you are agreeing to the following conditions.

* You may make use of the LLC only for non-commercial research and/or teaching.
* You may publish the results of research that uses the corpus.

… In any such publication, you may reproduce excerpts of the texts in the LLC only as permitted under US copyright law and fair use.
… You must clearly identify any excerpt as originating from the LLC.
… You must acknowledge the use of the LLC in your research by citing the following standard reference (in your field’s usual referencing style):

… … Troyer, Robert A. (2021). Linguistic Landscape Corpus. CQPweb at Lancaster. https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/llscape202107/

* We ask that you inform us of any publications (see the Contact page) so that we can list them on our site.

* You acknowledge that the LLC is provided to you “as is”, without any warranty or guarantee of utility for any specific purpose.

2. Create an account on cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk if you don’t already have one.

From the main page, click on Create account.

Complete the form, submit it, and then click the link that will be emailed to you to validate your account.
If you already have a CQPweb account, you do not need to create another one.

3. By registering for a CQPweb account and accessing the LLC, you affirm that you have read and understand the User License above, and that you agree to abide by its conditions.

4. Your CQPweb account will be granted access to the corpus immediately. From the CQPweb Main Page, scroll down to the “Uncategorized” corpora, and click on Linguistic Landscape Corpus to enter the search and analysis interface.