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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451042803321

Autore

Bowker Lynne

Titolo

Working with specialized language : a practical guide to using corpora / / Lynne Bowker and Jennifer Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-56067-2

1-280-40411-6

0-585-45326-8

0-203-46925-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PearsonJennifer

Disciplina

418/.00285

Soggetti

Sublanguage - Data processing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Setting the scene; Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools; Introducing LSP; Corpus design, compilation and processing; Designing a special purpose corpus; Compiling a special purpose corpus; Markup and annotation; Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation; Introduction to basic corpus processing tools; Corpus-based applications in LSP; Building useful glossaries; Term extraction; Using LSP corpora as a writing guide; Using LSP corpora as a translation resource

Other applications and future directionsAppendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.