Welcome to CLiC. CLiC is a web app designed to support the computer-assisted study of narrative fiction. It started off with the CLiC Dickens project and now contains a range of fictional texts from children’s literature to German novels (all out of copyright).
For more information on how to use CLiC, please take a look at the CLiC user guide. For inspiration on what to do with CLiC, the CLiC blog provides plenty of examples. If you are a creative writer, you might want to try out the CLiC Creative resources.
To get started searching the texts, please choose a function in the control bar to the right (click the icon in the top right if it is not displayed).
Citing CLiC
When you use CLiC in your work, please cite CLiC like this:
Mahlberg, M., Stockwell, P., Wiegand, V. and Lentin, J. (2020) CLiC 2.1. Corpus Linguistics in Context, available at: clic-fiction.com [Accessed: DATE]
If possible, please also include a link to clic-fiction.com.
Acknowledgements
The first CLiC project between the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant references AH/P504634/1 & AH/K005146/1)
The ChiLit corpus has been compiled as part of the GLARE project. GLARE was funded by the European Commission within Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (reference number EU 749521).
The lastest FlexiConc functionality in CLiC was funded by an AHRC / DFG project (grant references AH/X002047/1 & AH/X002047/2).
Current CLiC development is supported by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation.
CLiC User guide
You can find more information about CLiC, the CLiC corpora and CLiC policies (including our privacy, accessibility, and cookies policies) in our user guide.
CLiC Policies
You can find more information about CLiC policies (including our privacy, accessibility, and cookies policies) in our user guide.