Corpus linguistics around the world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Wilson, Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451599603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2006
• ISBN: 94-012-0221-4; 1-4237-9137-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Collana: Language and computers ; ; no. 56
• Altri autori (Persone): ArcherDawn; RaysonPaul; WilsonAndrew
• Disciplina: 410.285
• Soggetti: Computational linguistics; Philology - Data processing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Selected papers of the second conference on corpus linguistics held at Lancaster University in March 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Andrew Wilson , Archer Dawn and Paul Rayson -- Methodology and steps towards the construction of EPEC, a corpus of written Basque tagged at morphological and syntactic levels for automatic processing / I. Aduriz , M.J. Aranzabe , J.M. Arriola , A. Atutxa , A. Díaz de Ilarraza , N. Ezeiza , K. Gojenola , M. Oronoz , A. Soroa and R. Urizar -- The mood of the (financial) markets: In a corpus of words and of pictures / Khurshid Ahmad , David Cheng , Tugba Taskaya , Saif Ahmad , Lee Gillam , Manomaisupat Pensiri , Hayssam Traboulsi and Andrew Hippisley -- Towards a methodology for corpus-based studies of linguistic change: Contrastive observations and their possible diachronic interpretations in the Korpus 2000 and Korpus 90 General Corpora of Danish / Jørg Asmussen -- Synchronic and diachronic variation: the how and why of sociolinguistic corpora. / Kate Beeching -- Statistical analysis of the source origin of Maltese / Roderick Bovingdon and Angelo Dalli -- Discovering regularities in non-native speech / Julie Carson-Berndsen , Ulrike Gut and Robert Kelly -- Tracking lexical changes in the reference corpus of Slovene ; texts / Vojko Gorjanc -- Relating linguistic units to socio-contextual information in a spontaneous speech corpus of Spanish / José María Guirao , Antonio Moreno Sandoval , Ana González Ledesma , Guillermo de la Madrid and Manuel Alcántara -- An analysis of lexical text coverage in contemporary German / Randall L. Jones -- Analysing a semantic corpus study across English dialects: Searching for paradigmatic parallels / Sarah Lee and Debra Ziegeler -- The curse and the blessing of mobile phones – a corpus-based study into American and Polish rhetorical conventions / Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska -- Using a dedicated corpus to identify features of professional English usage: What do “we” do in science journal articles? / Judy Noguchi , Thomas Orr and Yukio Tono -- Methods and tools for development of the Russian Reference Corpus / Serge Sharoff -- A profile-based calculation of region and register variation: the synchronic and diachronic status of the two main national varieties of Dutch / Dirk Speelman , Stefan Grondelaers and Dirk Geeraerts -- A multilingual learner corpus in Brazil / Stella E. O. Tagnin -- Quantitative or qualitative content analysis? Experiences from a cross-cultural comparison of female students’ attitudes to shoe fashions in Germany, Poland and Russia / Andrew Wilson and Olga Moudraia -- Survey and Prospect of China’s Corpus-Based Research / Yang Xiao-jun.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in April 2003. The papers selected address a wide range of world languages - Basque, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Slovene. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are included, as well as studies of learner language. In addition to mainstream linguistic analyses of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and rhetoric, application areas covered in the volume include financial forecasting, cross-cultural research, corpus processing, and language teaching.