Overview

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 corpus linguistics. The contributors present accessible, yet detailed, analyses of recent methods and theory in Corpus Linguistics, ways of analysing corpora, and recent applications in translation, stylistics, discourse analysis and language teaching.  The book represents the best of current practice in Corpus Linguistics, and as a one volume reference will be invaluable to students and researchers looking for an overview of the field.

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Author:   Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Edition:   NIPPOD
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781441181336

ISBN 10:   1441181334
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Paul Baker 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King Bibliography Index

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After [Baker's] useful introduction, which provides a brief but sensible update on the current status of corpus Work, there are sixteen chapters by different authors on the way corpora can contribute to the study of all kinds of topics, including metaphor, critical discourse analysis, stylistics, lexical patterning, patterns in speech, linguistic variation, dictionaries, second language teaching, translation and on the more technical issues of software development and corpus-building (The Year's Work in English Studies)

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Paul Baker is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Modern English language at Lancaster University, UK.

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