Introducing Electronic Text Analysis

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Introducing Electronic Text Analysis[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham, UK[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to corpora bodies of linguistic data. Written specifically for students studying this topic for the first time, the book begins with a discussion of the underlying principles of electronic text analysis. It then examines how these corpora enhance our understanding of literary and non-literary works.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the first section the author introduces the concepts of concordance and lexical frequency, concepts which are then applied to a range of areas of language study. Key areas examined are the use of on-line corpora to complement traditional stylistic analysis, and the ways in which methods such as concordance and frequency counts can reveal a particular ideology within a text.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Presenting an accessible and thorough understanding of the underlying principles of electronic text analysis, the book contains abundant illustrative examples and a glossary with definitions of main concepts. It will also be supported by a companion website with links to on-line corpora so that students can apply their knowledge to further study.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]June 2006: 234x156: 176pp[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hb: 0-415-32022-4: ISBN 13: 978-0-415-32022-1: ?60.00[/FONT]
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[armstrong]

thanks, Dr.Xiao.

 

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回复: Introducing Electronic Text Analysis

谢谢! Fuyanger 两月前曾贴过,有table of contents,应该同一篇.http://forum.corpus4u.org/showthread.php?t=2148 ,现挂上.

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.