Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced)

✍ Scribed by Hans Lindquist

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An accessible, hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English. After introducing corpora and the rationale behind corpus linguistics and describing the basic methodology, Hans Lindquist presents a number of case studies that offer new insights about vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor, metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, register and style, and changes in language. Each chapter features exercises and suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students because of its clear language and structure, well-defined terminology, step-by-step instructions, generous and up-to-date examples from different varieties of English around the world, and accompanying web-pages with additional exercises and recent research concerning freely accessible corpora. This book is aimed at university students of English at the intermediate level and is especially well suited for students planning term papers and longer projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
To readers......Page 17
Abbreviations......Page 20
1 Corpus linguistics......Page 22
2 Counting, calculating and annotating......Page 46
3 Looking for lexis......Page 72
4 Checking collocations and colligations......Page 92
5 Finding phrases......Page 112
6 Metaphor and metonymy......Page 132
7 Grammar......Page 152
8 Male and female......Page 171
9 Language change......Page 188
10 Corpus linguistics in cyberspace......Page 208
References......Page 228
Index......Page 238

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