Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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27.
NEW! Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Schneider, Stefan
2007. xiv, 237 pp.
26.
NEW! Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora in contrastive studies
Johansson, Stig
2007. xxii, 355 pp.
25.
NEW! Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing
Sinclair, John McH. and Anna Mauranen
2006. xxii, 185 pp.
24. Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English
?del, Annelie
2006. x, 243 pp.
23. University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers
Biber, Douglas
2006. viii, 261 pp.
22. Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education
Scott, Mike and Christopher Tribble
2006. x, 203 pp.
21. Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
Gavioli, Laura
2005. xi, 176 pp.
20. English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Mahlberg, Michaela
2005. x, 206 pp.
19. Strategies in Academic Discourse
Tognini-Bonelli, Elena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.)
2005. xii, 212 pp.
18. Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
R?mer, Ute
2005. xiv + 328 pp.
17. Corpora and Language Learners
Aston, Guy, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart (eds.)
2004. vi, 312 pp.
16. Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton (eds.)
2004. vi, 334 pp.
15. C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Cresti, Emanuela and Massimo Moneglia (eds.)
2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
14. Collocations in a Learner Corpus
Nesselhauf, Nadja
2005. xii, 332 pp.
13. Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Lindquist, Hans and Christian Mair (eds.)
2004. xiv, 265 pp.
12. How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Sinclair, John McH. (ed.)
2004. viii, 308 pp.
11. Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Barnbrook, Geoff
2002. xvi, 281 pp.
10. English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus
Aijmer, Karin
2002. xvi, 299 pp.
9. Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Reppen, Randi, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber (eds.)
2002. xii, 275 pp.
8. Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings
Stenstr?m, Anna-Brita, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund
2002. xii, 229 pp.
7. Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.)
2002. x, 339 pp.
6. Corpus Linguistics at Work
Tognini-Bonelli, Elena
2001. xii, 224 pp.
5. Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice
Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.)
2001. xxiv, 420 pp.
4. Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English
Hunston, Susan and Gill Francis
2000. xiv, 288 pp.
3. Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora
Botley, Simon Philip and Tony McEnery (eds.)
2000. vi, 258 pp.
2. Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching
Partington, Alan
1998. x, 158 pp.
1. Terms in Context
Pearson, Jennifer
1998. xii, 246 pp.


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Linear Unit Grammar

Integrating speech and writing

John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen Tuscan Word Centre / University of Helsinki


Studies in Corpus Linguistics 25

2006. xxii, 185 pp.
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People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to harness the potential of natural chunking.
This book explores the role of chunking in the description of discourse, especially spoken discourse. It appears that chunking offers a sound but flexible platform on which can be built a descriptive model which is more open and comprehensive than more familiar approaches to structural description. The model remains linear, in that it avoids hierarchies, and it concentrates on the combinatorial patterns of text.
The linear approach turns out to have many advantages, bringing together under one descriptive method a wide variety of different styles of speech and writing. It is complementary to established grammars, but it raises pertinent questions about many of their assumptions.



Table of contents


Dedication
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Preamble
xi–xiii
Introduction
xv–xxi
Section A: Preliminaries
1
Setting the scene
3–22
Background
23–40
Data description
41–45
Section B: Analysis
47
System of analysis
49–54
Provisional Unit Boundaries
55–58
Types of chunks
59–70
Types of organisational elements
71–78
Types of increments to shared experience
79–89
Synthesis
91–103
Section C: Theory and follow-up
105
The example texts analysed

107–127
Theoretical synopsis
129–144
Looking ahead
145–166
Appendix
167–173
Bibliography
175–179
Index of names
181–182
Index of subjects
183–185

 

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How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Edited by John McH. Sinclair

Studies in Corpus Linguistics 12

2004. viii, 308 pp.
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After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.


Table of contents


List of contributors
vii
Introduction John McH. Sinclair

1–10
The corpus and the teacher

In the classroom
13
In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments Silvia Bernardini

15–36
In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know — and how corpora can help Amy B.M. Tsui

39–61
Resources — Corpora

Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching Susan Conrad

67–85
Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner Anna Mauranen

89–105
Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese Luísa Alice Santos Pereira

109–122
Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching Nadja Nesselhauf

125–152
Research

Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essays Gyula Tankó

157–181
Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics Ute R?mer

185–199
Resources — Computing

Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis Michael Barlow

205–221
Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work Pernilla Danielsson

225–246
Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations Pascual Pérez-Paredes

249–268
Prospects

New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes John McH. Sinclair

271–299
Notes on contributors
301
Index
305

 

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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation

Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University


Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9

2002. xii, 275 pp.
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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or registers. Part 1: “Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features” focuses on the study of specific words, expressions, or grammatical constructions, to study variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature. Part 2: “Exploring dialect and register variation” describes salient characteristics of dialects or registers and the patterns of variation across varieties. Part 3: “Exploring Historical Variation” applies these same two major perspectives to historical variation. One recurring theme is the extent to which linguistic variation depends on register differences, reflecting the importance of register as a key methodological and thematic concern in current corpus linguistic research.




Table of contents


Introduction
vii
Part I: Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features

1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: Some findings from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English Deanna Poos and Rita Simpson

3–23
2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction Fiona Farr and Anne O'Keeffe

25–48
3. Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation Michael McCarthy

49–71
4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus Graeme Kennedy

73–90
5. Strong modality and negation in Russian Ferdinand de Haan

91–110
6. Formulaic language in English academic writing: A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines David Oakey

111–129
7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition Viviana Cortes

131–145
8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English Charles Meyer

147–166
9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation: Applications of a corpus-driven grammar Susan Hunston

167–183
Part II: Exploring dialect or register variation

10. Syntactic features of Indian English: An examination of written Indian English Chandrika K. Rogers

187–202
11. Variation in academic lectures: Interactivity and level of instruction Enikó Csomay

203–224
Part III: Exploring historical variation

12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English: A corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation Susan M. Fitzmaurice

227–247
13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English: A multi-dimensional comparison Christer Geisler

249–271
Index
273–274




“The editors of this volume have succeeded in collecting together a handsome array of papers that will promote further advances in the field.”
Merja Kyt?, Uppsala University, in Language Vol.82(2), 2006