Working with Spanish Corpora (Corpus and Discourse)

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Parodi (editor)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters represent a range of research on Spanish using a number of different corpora drawn from, amongst others, research articles, student writing, formal conversation and technical reports. A variety of methodologies are brought to bear upon these corpora including multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis, latent semantics and lexical bundles. This in-depth analysis of using Spanish corpora will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics or Spanish language.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of tables, figures and graphs
List of contributors
Editor's Preface
List of abbreviations and acronyms
Chapter I: INTRODUCTION Catching up with corpus linguistics: Register-diversified studies from different corpora in different Spanish speaking countries
Chapter II: Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring the El Grial PUCV Corpus
Chapter III: Dimensions of register variation in Spanish
Chapter IV: Epistemic modality and academic orality: Pilotstudy for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Espanol Cientifico de la Argentina)
Chapter V: Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs in Spanish
Chapter VI: Future tense expressions in several Spanish corpora
Chapter VII: Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types
Chapter VIII: Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92
Chapter IX: Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus
Chapter X: Lexical bundles in speech and writing
References
Index