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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... role and function of language, its structure and use. The papers give qualitative and mostly also quantitative analyses of their data, always with respect to the specific 'work' the language does for its users. The contributors to this ...
... role and function of language, its structure and use. The papers give qualitative and mostly also quantitative analyses of their data, always with respect to the specific 'work' the language does for its users. The contributors to this ...
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... role such language had at the time it was used and what influences result for our present views on language. The first of these papers, by Wolfgang Kühlwein, draws connecting lines from lexicological to intertextual to semiotic research ...
... role such language had at the time it was used and what influences result for our present views on language. The first of these papers, by Wolfgang Kühlwein, draws connecting lines from lexicological to intertextual to semiotic research ...
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... roles, and the exchange structure is usually no longer comprised of adjacent pairs of utterances. However, Bublitz concludes that this is not exclusively a feature of computer-mediated discourse alone. Ronald Carter and Svenja Adolphs ...
... roles, and the exchange structure is usually no longer comprised of adjacent pairs of utterances. However, Bublitz concludes that this is not exclusively a feature of computer-mediated discourse alone. Ronald Carter and Svenja Adolphs ...
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... role he plays raises questions concerning the relationship of theoretical and applied linguistics, between theory and practice. Michael Stubbs' work has always been located within Applied Linguistics, in the sense that many of his ...
... role he plays raises questions concerning the relationship of theoretical and applied linguistics, between theory and practice. Michael Stubbs' work has always been located within Applied Linguistics, in the sense that many of his ...
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... role of appraisal and corpora in detecting covert evaluation' Functions of Language 13: 77-110. Cooper M. 1981. 'Aspects of the structure of written academic discourse and implications for the design of reading programmes'. In Hoedt et ...
... role of appraisal and corpora in detecting covert evaluation' Functions of Language 13: 77-110. Cooper M. 1981. 'Aspects of the structure of written academic discourse and implications for the design of reading programmes'. In Hoedt et ...
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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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