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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... words are routinely being ignored by corpus linguists, on the grounds that they are too frequent or have no meaning ... word units (partly based on n-grams as used by other authors in this 4 Mason & Gerbig.
... words are routinely being ignored by corpus linguists, on the grounds that they are too frequent or have no meaning ... word units (partly based on n-grams as used by other authors in this 4 Mason & Gerbig.
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... word. New communication technology and multi-media computing allow us to look at other manifestations of language ... words and textual patterns, and the novel, with its characters and plot. The issue at stake is then how elements of ...
... word. New communication technology and multi-media computing allow us to look at other manifestations of language ... words and textual patterns, and the novel, with its characters and plot. The issue at stake is then how elements of ...
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... Word Center, Siena, Italy Wolfgang Teubert Professor of Corpus Linguistics Department of English The University of Birmingham, UK Henry Widdowson Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics Universität Wien ... Words and Contributing Authors 7.
... Word Center, Siena, Italy Wolfgang Teubert Professor of Corpus Linguistics Department of English The University of Birmingham, UK Henry Widdowson Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics Universität Wien ... Words and Contributing Authors 7.
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... Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies in Lexical Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1996: Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer-assisted Studies of Language and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. 1986: Educational Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1983 ...
... Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies in Lexical Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1996: Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer-assisted Studies of Language and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. 1986: Educational Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1983 ...
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... word-list. In C. Tschichold ed. English Core Linguistics. Bern: Peter Lang. [Festschrift for David Allerton] 247-67 ... Words in Context. Birmingham University. [CD-ROM.] 2000: Text and corpus linguistics. In M. Byram ed. Encyclopedia ...
... word-list. In C. Tschichold ed. English Core Linguistics. Bern: Peter Lang. [Festschrift for David Allerton] 247-67 ... Words in Context. Birmingham University. [CD-ROM.] 2000: Text and corpus linguistics. In M. Byram ed. Encyclopedia ...
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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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