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UNINA9910544603603321 |
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Autore |
Lindquist Hans |
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Titolo |
Corpus linguistics and the description of English [[electronic resource] /] / Hans Lindquist |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62010-X |
9786612620102 |
0-7486-3140-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Corpora (Linguistics) |
Computational linguistics |
English language - Discourse analysis |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; To readers; Abbreviations; 1 Corpus linguistics; 2 Counting, calculating and annotating; 3 Looking for lexis; 4 Checking collocations and colligations; 5 Finding phrases; 6 Metaphor and metonymy; 7 Grammar; 8 Male and female; 9 Language change; 10 Corpus linguistics in cyberspace; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language chang |
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