Tony Mcenery, Andrew Wilson

Corpus Linguistics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in this rapidly changing field, making this book the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook available. It gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780748611652
• ISBN-10: 0748611657
• Artikelnr.: 22241809

Autorenporträt

Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution What is a Corpus and
What is in It? Quantitative Data The Use of Corpora in Language Studies
Corpora and Language Engineering A Case Study: Sublanguages Looking
Backwards, Looking Forwards

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1. Corpus linguistics; 2. Accessing and analysing corpus data; 3. The web, laws and ethics; 4. English corpus linguistics; 5. Corpus-based studies of synchronic and diachronic variation; 6. Neo-Firthian corpus linguistics; 7. Corpus methods and functionalist linguistics; 8. The convergence of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, and functionalist linguistics; 9. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'A comprehensive and up-to-date overview, covering nicely theoretical distinctions and debates as well as the hands-on, practical questions every corpus linguist has to come to grips with.' Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara