Corpus Stylistics: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Dan McIntyre, Brian Walker

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 375
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This theoretical and practical guide to using corpus linguistic techniques in stylistic analysis focuses on how to use off-the-shelf corpus software, such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and the Brigham Young University (BYU) corpus interface.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Untitled
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Acknowledgements
1 Combining corpus linguistics and stylistics
2 Using corpora to support qualitative stylistic analysis
3 Constructing and annotating corpora
4 Testing hypotheses and answering research questions
5 Making sense of significance
6 Cognition, character and corpus stylistics
7 Pedagogical corpus stylistics
8 Historical corpus stylistics
9 Real-world applications for corpus stylistics
10 The scope of corpus stylistics
Appendix 1: Corpora for corpus stylistics
Appendix 2: Software for corpus stylistics
References
Index

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