[推荐]Introducing electronic text analysis

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Introducing electronic text analysis / by Svenja Adolphs

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Electronic text analysis: corpus linguistics by another name?
Research Goals
Textual resources
Types of analysis
A brief background to techniques in electronic text analysis
Frequency lists
Concordance data
Studying Language: theory and practice
Why use electronic text analysis?
The scope of electronic text analysis
Projects in electronic text analysis
Research question
Availability of texts
Availability of software
Organisation of the book
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 2: Electronic Text Resources
Introduction
What kind of resource for what kind of research?
Corpus size
Corpus content
From text to corpus: stages of handling electronic texts
Mark-up
Annotation
Meta-data
The representation of spoken data
Storage
Contemporary electronic text resources
Early corpora
Second generation corpora
Large corpora
Specialised corpora and electronic text resources
Learner corpora
Literary corpora and electronic text resources
Electronic text archives
The web as corpus
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 3: Exploring frequencies in texts: basic techniques
Introduction
Software Packages
Basic information about the text
Type-token ratio
Word lists
Single words
Recurrent continuous sequences
Comparing frequencies in text collections of different size
Keywords
Single keywords
Key sequences
Other statistical measures
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 4: Exploring words and phrases in use: basic techniques
Introduction
The concordance output
Describing words and phrases in use An example
Multi-word units and Collocation
Mutual information
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 5 The electronic analysis of literary texts
Introduction
Using computers to analyse literary texts: basic techniques
Intra-textual analysis
Inter-textual analysis
An example: Semantic prosodies and point of view in fiction
Introduction to the text
Analysis
Concluding remarks
Annotating literary corpora for stylistic research
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 6: Electronic text analysis, language and ideology
Introduction
Language, ideology and corpora
Electronic texts for the study of ideology
Key words, grammatical structures and ideology
A sample analysis
Introduction
The meaning of genetics: background
Description of corpus data
Data analysis
Frequencies
Concordance data
Collocation and semantic prosody
Extending the analysis to the level of discourse
Dealing with exception
Concluding remarks
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 7: Language teaching applications
Introduction
Electronic text resources for language teaching and learning
Language description and ELT pedagogy
Word frequency
Phraseology
Other features of naturally occurring language
Corpus-informed material design
Data-driven learning
Electronic text analysis and learner English
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes
Chapter 8: Further fields of application
Introduction
Looking back
Looking sideways
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Electronic Text Analysis and culture
Looking ahead
Summary
Activities
Further Reading
Notes


Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Discourse analysis -- Data processing.
 
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Introducing Electronic Text Analysis: A Practical Guide for Language and Literary Studies

by Adolphs, Svenja.

Publication: London, New York Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2006.

1 Introduction The field of electronic text analysis has been expanding rapidly over the past decades. This is partly due to advances in information technology and software development, but also as a result of the growing interest in using electronic resources to complement more traditional approaches to the analysis of language and literature. The improved accessibility of computers has added to the increasing popularity of electronic text analysis, especially in the higher education context. The development of principled collections of electronic texts, also called corpora, has allowed a systematic exploration of recurring patterns in language in use, and this has become one of the main areas of enquiry in the emerging field referred to as

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About the Author

Svenja Adolphs is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests are in the area of corpus analysis and discourse analysis, and in the representation of spoken interaction as digital records for research in applied linguistics. She has been involved in the design, annotation and mark-up of the a number of spoken corpora including the five million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and the 500,000 word Nottingham International Corpus.

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