The BNC handbook : exploring the British National Corpus with SARA / Guy Aston and Lou Burnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aston, Guy, author.

Burnard, Lou, author.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks in empirical linguistics.

Edinburgh textbooks in empirical linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Data processing.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages).

Other Title:

British National Corpus handbook

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

This textbook is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the principles and practices underlying the use of large language corpora in exploratory learning and English language teaching and research. It focuses on the largest and most representative corpus of spoken and written data yet compiled - the British National Corpus - and on the search tool SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application). The method adopted is to provide a graded series of exercises, each introducing at the same time new features of the software and new techniques or applications for computer-assisted language learning. The book also includes an overview of previous work in corpus linguistics, a bibliography, and a reference manual for the SARA software.* Graded self-paced tutorials* Suggestions for further work* Thorough coverage of corpus linguistics theories and practices* State-of-the-art software* Accessible non-specialist style

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1: Corpus linguistics and the BNC

Introduction

1 Corpus linguistics

2 The British National Corpus

3 Future corpora

II: Exploring the BNC with SARA

1 Old words and new words

2 What is more than one corpus?

3 When is ajar not a door?

4 A query too far

5 Do people ever say 'you can say that again'?

6 Do men say mauve?

7 'Madonna hits album' - did it hit back?

8 Springing surprises on the armchair linguist

9 Returning to more serious matters

10 What does 'SARA' mean?

III: Reference Guide

1 Quick reference guide to the SARA client

2 Code tables

3 SGML Listing format

4 Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7486-2888-6

OCLC:

1306539591