Corpus-based research in applied linguistics : studies in honor of Doug Biber / Edited by Viviana Cortes, Eniko Csomay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortes, Viviana, editor.

Csomay, Eniko, editor.

Biber, Douglas, honouree.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 1388-0373 v. 66.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied linguistics--Research.

Applied linguistics.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Contents:

Douglas Biber and the Flagstaff School of corpus-based research: An introduction

Chapter 1. A corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation in teacher and student presentations in university settings

Chapter 2. Telephone interactions: A multidimensional comparison

Chapter 3. On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity

Chapter 4. Telling by omission: Hedging and negative evaluation in academic recommendation letters

Chapter 5. Corpora, context, and language teachers: Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus project

Chapter 6. The challenge of constructing a reliable word list: An exploratory corpus-based analysis of lexical variability in introductory Psychology textbooks

Chapter 7. corpus linguistics and New Englishes

Chapter 8. Investigating textual borrowing in academic discourse: The need for a corpus-based approach

Chapter 9. Situating lexical bundles in the formulaic language spectrum: Origins and functional analysis developments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027203748

9027203741

9789027269058

902726905X

OCLC:

891619595