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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459366703321

Titolo

The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics / / edited by Anne O'Keeffe and Michael McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15362-0

1-135-15363-9

1-282-58997-0

1-78034-820-7

9786612589973

0-203-85694-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (711 p.)

Collana

Routledge handbooks in applied linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

McCarthyMichael <1947->

O'KeeffeAnne

Disciplina

410.1/88

Soggetti

Corpora (Linguistics)

Discourse analysis

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Section I Introduction; Section II Building and designing a corpus: What are the key considerations?; Section III Analysing a corpus: What are the basics?; Section IV Using a corpus for language research: What can a corpus tell us about language?; Section V Using a corpus for language pedagogy and methodology; Section VI Designing corpus-based materials for the language classroom; Section VII Using corpora to study literature and translation

Section VIII Applying corpus linguistics to other areas of researchIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent years it has seen an ever-widening application



in a variety of fields: computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies.Bringing together experts in the key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six th