From data to evidence in English language research / edited by Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suhr, Carla, editor.

Nevalainen, Terttu, editor.

Taavitsainen, Irma, editor.

Series:

Language and computers ; no. 83.

Language and computers : studies in digital linguistics ; volume 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Research--Data processing.

English language.

English language--History--Data processing.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics.

English language--Data processing.

History.

English language--Research.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 354 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

From 'Data to Evidence in English Language Research' draws on diverse digital data sources alongside more traditional linguistic corpora to offer new insights into the ways in which they can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics. This is achieved, for example, by increasing data size, adding multi-layered contextual analyses, applying methods from adjacent fields, and adapting existing data sets to new uses. 0Making innovative contributions to digital linguistics, the chapters in the volume apply a combination of methods to the increasing amount of digital data available to researchers to show how this data - both established and newly available - can be utilized, enriched and rethought to provide new evidence for developments in the English language.

Contents:

1. Corpus linguistics as digital scholarship big data, rich data and uncharted data / Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen

2. Big Data Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics / Antoinette Renouf

3. Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design / Mark Davies

4. Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English / Lieselotte Anderwald

5. Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English / Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko

6. Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data / Thomas Kohnen

7. Mining Big Data: a Philologist's Perspective / Tanja Rutten

8. Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions / Daniela Landert

9. Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence / Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider

10. Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor / Tony McEnery and Helen Baker

11. An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English/ Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich

12. Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets / Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkko

13. Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics / David Brett and Antonio Pinna

14. Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach / Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: From data to evidence in English language research

ISBN:

9789004390645

9004390642

OCLC:

1066183877

Publisher Number:

99983565266