Advances in corpus linguistics : papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23), Göteborg 22-26 May 2002 / edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Aijmer, Karin.

Altenberg, Bengt.

Conference Name:

International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (23rd : 2002 : Göteborg, Sweden)

Series:

Language and Computers 49.

Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing--Congresses.

English language.

English language--Research--Data processing--Congresses.

English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing.

English language--Research--Data processing.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 419 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.

Summary:

This book provides an up-to-date survey of current issues and approaches in corpus linguistics in the form of twenty-two recent research articles. The articles cover a wide range of topics illustrating the diversity of research that is characteristic of corpus linguistics today. Central themes are the relationship between theory, intuition and corpus data and the role of corpora in linguistic research. The majority of the articles are empirical studies of specific aspects of English, ranging from lexis and grammar to discourse and pragmatics. Other areas explored are language variation, language change and development, language learning, cross-linguistic comparisons of English and other languages, and the development of linguistic software tools. The contributors to the volume include some of the leading figures in the field such as M.A.K. Halliday, John Sinclair, Geoffrey Leech and Michael Hoey. The theoretical and methodological issues addressed in the volume demonstrate clearly the steady advance of an expanding discipline inspired by an empirical, usage-based approach to the study of language. The volume is essential reading for researchers and students interested in the use of computer corpora in linguistic research.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg

Introduction / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg

The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory / M.A.K. Halliday

Intuition and annotation – the discussion continues / John Sinclair

Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory / Geoffrey Leech

Corpus data in a usage-based cognitive grammar / Joybrato Mukherjee

Putting ‘putting verbs’ to the test of corpora / Caroline David

Esphoric reference and pseudo-definiteness / Peter Willemse

Why “an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm”: A corpus-based comparative study of metaphor in British and American political discourse / Jonathan Charteris-Black

Signalling spokenness in personal advertisements on the Web: The case of ESL countries in South East Asia / Peter K. W. Tan , Vincent B. Y. Ooi and Andy K. L. Chiang

Textual colligation: a special kind of lexical priming / Michael Hoey

Adverbials in IT-cleft constructions / Hilde Hasselgård

On the pragmatic functions of let’s utterances / Bernard De Clerck

Methodological problems in corpus-based historical pragmatics. The case of English directives / Thomas Kohnen

Measure noun constructions: degrees of delexicalization and grammaticalization / Lieselotte Brems

Yourself: a general-purpose emphatic-reflexive? / Göran Kjellmer

Aspects of spoken vocabulary development in the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus of Children’s English / Clive Souter

Demonstrative reference as a cohesive device in advanced learner writing: a corpus-based study / Roumiana Blagoeva

Translations as semantic mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet / Helge Dyvik

Physical contact verbs in English and Swedish from the perspective of crosslinguistic lexicology / Åke Viberg

Exploring theme contrastively: the choice of model / Anna-Lena Fredriksson

Welcoming children, pets and guests: towards functional equivalence in the languages of ‘Agriturismo’ and ‘Farmhouse Holidays’ / Elena Tognini Bonelli and Elena Manca

Using WebCorp in the classroom for building specialized dictionaries / Natalie Kübler

The accidental corpus: some issues in extracting linguistic information from the Web / Antoinette Renouf , Andrew Kehoe and David Mezquiriz.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004333710

9004333711

OCLC:

56014449

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004333710 DOI