Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham)

Corpora in Applied Linguistics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing an accessible but thorough grounding in the fast-developing field of Corpus Linguistics, this book will be standard reading for advanced students of Applied Linguistics. The second edition has been completely rewritten, with extensive updates throughout, and new chapters on quantitative methods and on corpora and language theory.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Applied Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781108441186
• ISBN-10: 1108441181
• Artikelnr.: 63266707

Autorenporträt

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her recent publications include Corpus Approaches to Evaluation (Routledge 2011) and Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Paul Thompson, Routledge, 2019). She is a former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Designing a corpus
3. Learning from a corpus: finding pattern in concordance lines
4. Foundational quantitative concepts in corpus linguistics
5. Exploring corpora through quantitative measures
6. The language learner and the corpus
7. Corpora and the analysis of discourse
8. Further applications of corpus reearch
9. Corpora and language theory
10. Conclusion.