Contemporary corpus linguistics / edited by Paul Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Paul, 1972-

Series:

Contemporary Studies in Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora (Linguistics).

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corpus Linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. For this reason, Corpus Linguistics is a popular and expanding area of study. Contemporary Corpus Linguistics presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which Corpus Linguistics is being used by researchers. Written by internationally renowned linguists, this volume of seventeen introductory chapters aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corp

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Searching for Metaphorical Patterns in Corpora; Chapter 3 Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis; Chapter 4 Corpus Stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot; Chapter 5 The Metalanguage of IMPOLITENESS: Using Sketch Engine to Explore the Oxfor Oxford English Corpus; Chapter 6 Issues in the Design and Development of Software Tools for Corpus Studies: The Case for Collaboration; Chapter 7 Compatibility Between Corpus Annotation Efforts and its Effect on Computational Linguistics

Chapter 8 Spoken Corpus Analysis: Multimodal Approaches to Language DescriptionChapter 9 Fixed Collocational Patterns in Isolexical and Isotextual Versions of a Corpus; Chapter 10 Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation; Chapter 11 Integrating Learner Corpus Analysis into a Probabilistic Model of Second Language Acquisition; Chapter 12 English Language Teaching and Corpus Linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus; Chapter 13 The Impact of Corpora on Dictionaries; Chapter 14 Using Corpora in Translation Studies: The State of the Art

Chapter 15 Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of South Asia: Some Current Research DirectionsChapter 16 The Web as Corpus Versus Traditional Corpora: Their Relative Utility for Linguists and Language Learners; Chapter 17 Building and Analysing Corpora of Computer-Mediated Communication; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-87067-X

9786612870675

0-8264-4034-7

OCLC:

676697553