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Record Nr.

UNINA9910544603603321

Autore

Lindquist Hans

Titolo

Corpus linguistics and the description of English [[electronic resource] /] / Hans Lindquist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-62010-X

9786612620102

0-7486-3140-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced

Disciplina

410.285

Soggetti

Corpora (Linguistics)

Computational linguistics

English language - 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 (p. 207-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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