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Contemporary corpus linguistics / edited by Paul Baker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum studies in LinguisticsPublisher: London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012Description: ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781441181336
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 410.1 CON
Contents:
1. Introduction, Paul Baker -- 2. Searching for Metaphorical Patterns in Corpora, Alice Deignan -- 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner -- 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg -- 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper -- 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony -- 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers -- 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs -- 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey -- 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes -- 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono -- 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen -- 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks -- 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue -- 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie -- 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew -- 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King.
Summary: Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. It aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corpus linguistics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction, Paul Baker -- 2. Searching for Metaphorical Patterns in Corpora, Alice Deignan -- 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner -- 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg -- 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper -- 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony -- 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers -- 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs -- 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey -- 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes -- 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono -- 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen -- 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks -- 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue -- 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie -- 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew -- 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King.

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. It aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corpus linguistics.

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