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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... reference corpora (see also Stubbs 2001). Mautner (2007: 8) describes such work as uniting qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Put simply, Stubbs notes that frequency is important because it reflects the prevalence in a given ...
... reference corpora (see also Stubbs 2001). Mautner (2007: 8) describes such work as uniting qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Put simply, Stubbs notes that frequency is important because it reflects the prevalence in a given ...
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... reference (something, someone, somewhere and so on) are significantly more frequent in Heart of Darkness than in a general Fiction corpus or in written English in general. Critics have also commented, not always positively, on the ...
... reference (something, someone, somewhere and so on) are significantly more frequent in Heart of Darkness than in a general Fiction corpus or in written English in general. Critics have also commented, not always positively, on the ...
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... References Baker P. 2006. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum. Channell J. 2000. 'Corpus-based analysis of evaluative lexis'. In Hunston and Thompson (eds.) 39-55. Coffin C. and K. O'Halloran 2006. 'The role of ...
... References Baker P. 2006. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum. Channell J. 2000. 'Corpus-based analysis of evaluative lexis'. In Hunston and Thompson (eds.) 39-55. Coffin C. and K. O'Halloran 2006. 'The role of ...
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... reference point for anyone wanting to know what a corpus was, and its architecture was still being replicated in corpora in the 1990s, compiled specifically to be compared with Brown and its UK clone, LOB (for all the Brown clones see ...
... reference point for anyone wanting to know what a corpus was, and its architecture was still being replicated in corpora in the 1990s, compiled specifically to be compared with Brown and its UK clone, LOB (for all the Brown clones see ...
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... reference to the rest of it. Words and phrases whose reference is to aspects of the language system behave just like other words – their relationship with the language system is purely semantic. Nor do I want to spend time on the use of ...
... reference to the rest of it. Words and phrases whose reference is to aspects of the language system behave just like other words – their relationship with the language system is purely semantic. Nor do I want to spend time on the use of ...
Contents
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How systemic is a large corpus of English? | 43 |
Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics | 61 |
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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