Martin Weisser

Gebundenes Buch

Practical Corpus Linguistics

An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis

Beschreibung

This is the first book of its kind to provide a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and analyzed. * Designed to equip readers with the technical skills necessary to analyze and interpret language data, both written and (orthographically) transcribed * Introduces a number of easy-to-use, yet powerful, free analysis resources consisting of standalone programs and web interfaces for use with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux * Each section includes practical exercises, a list of sources and further reading, and illustrated step-by-step introductions to analysis tools * Requires only a basic knowledge of computer concepts in order to develop the specific linguistic analysis skills required for understanding/analyzing corpus data

Autor

Martin Weisser is a Professor in the National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China . He is the author of Essential Programming for Linguistics (2009), and has published numerous articles and book chapters, including contributions to The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley, 2012) and Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook (2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 191mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781118831878
• ISBN-10: 111883187X
• Artikelnr.: 42989457