Language, People, Numbers: Corpus Linguistics and SocietyAndrea Gerbig, Oliver Mason (M.A.) The Contributors to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide range of areas in linguistics. Corpora can be used as models of human linguistic experience, and the contributors demonstrate that there is ample scope for integrating such models into the descriptions of discourse, grammar and meaning. Continually improving technological development facilitates the design of larger and more comprehensive corpora documenting language use in a multitude of genres, styles and modes, even starting to include visual aspects. Software to investigate these data also becomes increasingly powerful and more refined. The sixteen original articles in this volume cover substantial ground on both the theoretical as well as applied levels. Having such data and software resources at their disposal, the contributing researchers rethink the long discussed interplay between language system and use from various angles, considering socio-cultural and cognitive involvement and representation, with synchronic as well as diachronic perspectives in view. These theories and quantitative / qualitative methods are applied to a range of topics from language acquisition and teaching to literature and politics. All of the authors in this volume reveal the profound and leading impact that Mike Stubb's work has continued to contribute to the field of corpus-based description of language structure, use and function. |
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... Meaning has often been ignored by corpus research, as it is much harder a problem to tackle than lexis or even grammar/phraseology. Teubert argues that there could be a fruitful dialogue between cognitive linguists and corpus linguists ...
... Meaning has often been ignored by corpus research, as it is much harder a problem to tackle than lexis or even grammar/phraseology. Teubert argues that there could be a fruitful dialogue between cognitive linguists and corpus linguists ...
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... meaning. John Sinclair looked at of in Corpus Concordance Collocation (1991), and Naomi Hallan here analyses the uses of out, with a special focus on the use by children of different age bands and the differences there are compared to ...
... meaning. John Sinclair looked at of in Corpus Concordance Collocation (1991), and Naomi Hallan here analyses the uses of out, with a special focus on the use by children of different age bands and the differences there are compared to ...
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... meaning: text, technology and questions of induction. In A. Mehler & R. Köhler eds Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis. Berlin: Springer. [Festschrift for Burghard Rieger] 233-53. 2006: On teaching critical rationalism: reconciling ...
... meaning: text, technology and questions of induction. In A. Mehler & R. Köhler eds Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis. Berlin: Springer. [Festschrift for Burghard Rieger] 233-53. 2006: On teaching critical rationalism: reconciling ...
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... meaning through intertextuality: a given instance has a 'hidden meaning' because of the way a word or phrase in it is used in a number of other texts. Stubbs offers many examples of this, one being the collocations associated with the ...
... meaning through intertextuality: a given instance has a 'hidden meaning' because of the way a word or phrase in it is used in a number of other texts. Stubbs offers many examples of this, one being the collocations associated with the ...
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... meaning keeps it apart. It is thus in a position to adopt conventions, concepts, terms and working practices from a ... meanings. The final mini-study argues that the adoption of conventions of logical notation in formal grammars ...
... meaning keeps it apart. It is thus in a position to adopt conventions, concepts, terms and working practices from a ... meanings. The final mini-study argues that the adoption of conventions of logical notation in formal grammars ...
Contents
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Developing language education policy in Europe and searching for theory | 85 |
a diachronic and intercultural genre study | 157 |
tracking development and use | 177 |
I dont know differences in patterns of collocation and semantic prosody in phrases of different lengths | 199 |
corpus data and the phraseology of STUB and TOE | 217 |
linearity and the lexissyntax interface | 231 |
the treacherous simplicity of a metaphor How we handle new electronic hypertext versus old printed text | 249 |
new directions for corpus linguistics | 275 |
The novel features of text Corpus analysis and stylistics | 293 |
The semiotic patterning of Cædmons Hymn as a hypersign | 99 |
Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics with critical notes | 129 |
the dual identity of Michael Stubbs | 305 |
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