Contemporary Corpus Linguistics
Editor: Paul Baker
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date: March 2009
Pages: 344 pages
ISBN: 0826496105
ISBN13: 9780826496102
Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. This title presents a survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is used by researchers.
This title acts as a one-volume resource, providing an introduction to every aspect of corpus linguistics as it is being used at the moment.Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. For this reason, corpus linguistics is a popular and expanding area of study. "Contemporary Corpus Linguistics" presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. Written by internationally renowned linguists, this volume of seventeen introductory chapters aims to provide a snapshot of the field.The contributors present accessible, yet detailed, analyses of recent methods and theory in corpus linguistics, ways of analysing corpora, and recent applications in translation, stylistics, discourse analysis and language teaching. The book represents the best of current practice in corpus linguistics, and as a one volume reference will be invaluable to students and researchers looking for an overview of the field.
Table of contents
1. Introduction, Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK); 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan (University of Leeds, UK); 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria); 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool, UK); 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, UK); 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan); 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers (New York University, USA); 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann and Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham, UK); 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakley (Westmere University of Birmingham, UK); 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes (University of Sunderland, UK); 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono (Meikai University, Japan); 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen (Northern Arizona University, USA); 13. The impact of corpora on dictionaries, Patrick Hanks (Masaryk University, Czech Republic); 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao (Zhejiang University, China / University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Ming Yue (Zhejiang University, China); 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK); 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University); 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King; Bibliography; Index.
Editor: Paul Baker
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date: March 2009
Pages: 344 pages
ISBN: 0826496105
ISBN13: 9780826496102
Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. This title presents a survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is used by researchers.
This title acts as a one-volume resource, providing an introduction to every aspect of corpus linguistics as it is being used at the moment.Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. For this reason, corpus linguistics is a popular and expanding area of study. "Contemporary Corpus Linguistics" presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. Written by internationally renowned linguists, this volume of seventeen introductory chapters aims to provide a snapshot of the field.The contributors present accessible, yet detailed, analyses of recent methods and theory in corpus linguistics, ways of analysing corpora, and recent applications in translation, stylistics, discourse analysis and language teaching. The book represents the best of current practice in corpus linguistics, and as a one volume reference will be invaluable to students and researchers looking for an overview of the field.
Table of contents
1. Introduction, Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK); 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan (University of Leeds, UK); 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria); 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool, UK); 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, UK); 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan); 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers (New York University, USA); 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann and Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham, UK); 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakley (Westmere University of Birmingham, UK); 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes (University of Sunderland, UK); 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono (Meikai University, Japan); 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen (Northern Arizona University, USA); 13. The impact of corpora on dictionaries, Patrick Hanks (Masaryk University, Czech Republic); 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao (Zhejiang University, China / University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Ming Yue (Zhejiang University, China); 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK); 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University); 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King; Bibliography; Index.
