Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns / / edited by Kristin Davidse [and three others] ; in collaboaration with Tinne van Rompaey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827628603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-6974-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Corpus Linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; Volume 63
• Disciplina: 420.1/88
• Soggetti: English language - Grammar - Data processing; English language - Research - Data processing; English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing; Computational linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume is a selection of strictly refereed and extensively revised papers from the ICAME 33 International Conference "Corpora at the Centre and Crossroads of English Linguistics", organised in Leuven from 30 May to 3 June 2012"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Interrogating corpora to describe grammatical patterns ; References ; Part 1. Patterns in the verb phrase; Light verb constructions in the history of English ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Definition of light verb constructions ; 1.2 Use of light verb constructions and their development ; 2. Studies on the development of light verb constructions in the history English ; 3. Data and method ; 4. Data from the history of English ; 4.1 Old English data; 4.2 Middle English data 4.3 Early Modern English data ; 5. Discussion ; 6. Conclusion ; References ; What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? ; 1. The prefix then and now ; 2. Particles and their variation in early English ; 3. The decline of the prefix: Theories ; 4. The decline of the prefix: Quantitative evidence ; 5. The decline of the prefix: Interpretation ; 6. Could the prefix stage a ; comeback? ; 7. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; The pattern to be a-hunting from Middle to Late Modern English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. State of the art; 3. Nineteenth-century evidence 4. Retrieval problems involved ; 5. Provisional quantitative analysis ; 6. Concluding interpretation ; References ; The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Variation in Modern English ; 3. Corpus evidence from Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 3.1 The Brown quartet of corpora ; 3.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (Extended Version) ; 3.3 The Corpus of Contemporary American English ; 3.4 The Corpus of Historical American English ; 4. Summary and attempted explanation ; Sources ; References; can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English 1. Introduction ; 2. Theoretical background ; 2.1 Contact-induced language change ; 2.2 can and be able to in present-day Standard English ; 2.3 Participant-internal possibility in Irish ; 3. Methodology ; 3.1 Irish English data ; 3.2 English English data ; 3.3 Data analysis ; 4. be able to versus can in participant-internal possibility contexts ; 4.2 Language internal factors ; 5. Conclusion ; Sources ; References ; Part 2. Patterns in the noun phrase; Syntactic constraints on the use of dual form intensifiers in Modern English; 1. Setting the scene 2. The contrast between attributive and non-attributive adjectives ; 3. Intensified adjectives with or without complements ; 4. Discussion ; 5. Conclusions ; Sources ; References ; Ma daddy wis dead chuffed ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Sources of data ; 3. Discussion of the data ; 3.1 Preliminary remarks ; 3.2 Dead in BYU-BNC ; 3.3 Dead in COCA ; 3.4 Dead in ICE-Ireland ; 3.5 Dead in SCOTS ; 3.6 Dead across the varieties examined ; 4. Concluding remarks ; Sources ; References ; The case of focus ; 1. Introduction; 2. The distribution of pronoun case forms in English: A brief survey
• Sommario/riassunto: This article proposes a classification of speech functions of variable tag questions in British English conversations. Based on intonational, conversational and formal criteria the analysis shows that tag questions can not only function as questions and statements, but also as responses, commands and offers. A large group of tag questions cannot be captured by any of the traditional speech functions and are classified instead as Statement-Question blends. The article investigates the impact of the LLC and COLT corpora, and features such as gender, age and social roles, on the distribution of t

Visualizing climate change : a guide to visual communication of climate change and developing local solutions / / Stephen Sheppard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967599803321
• Autore: Sheppard S. R. J (Stephen Richard John), <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Earthscan, 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-52899-7; 1-136-52900-4; 1-84977-688-1
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (526 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.250113; 363.738/74; 363.73874
• Soggetti: Carbon dioxide mitigation; Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - Simulation methods; Climatic changes - Social aspects - Simulation methods; Climatology; Environmental chemistry; Environmental health; Health risk assessment; Visual communication
• 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: Front Cover; Visualizing Climate Change; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: Setting the scene on climate change; 1. An invisible truth? Perceptions and misperceptions of climate change; 2. Limited vision: Understanding perceptual problems with climate change; 3. A new climate change lens: Principles for shifting perceptions of climate change; 4. Learning to see: Reframing community perceptions of carbon and climate change; Part II: Knowing, seeing and acting on community carbon and climate change; 5. Right before our eyes: Seeing carbon; 6. Hot in my backyard: Seeing the impacts of climate change7. Cutting the carbon: Seeing mitigation solutions to climate change; 8. Being ; prepared: Seeing adaptation solutions to climate change; 9. Seeing the big picture on community carbon and climate change; Part III: Switching lenses: Changing minds with visual learning tools; 10. Landscape messaging: Making climate change more visible in the community; 11. Visual media: Knowing climate change when you see it - in pictures; 12. The modern crystal ball: Visualizing the future with climate change; 13. Local climate change visioning: Better processes for planning community futuresPart IV: With new eyes to see: What the future looks like with climate change; 14. Realizing future community visions: Getting to low-carbon, attractive, resilient communities; Appendix: Code of ethics for landscape visualization; Illustration credits; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps) This guide to using visual media in communicating climate change vividly brings to life both the science and the practical solutions for climate change, such as local renewable energy and flood protection. It introduces powerful new visual tools (from outdoor signs to video-games) for communities, action groups, planners, and other experts to use in engaging the public, building awareness and accelerating action on the world’s greatest crisis.Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery explains how climate change works where we live, and reveals how we often conceal, misinterpret, or overlook the evidence of climate change impacts and our carbon usage that causes them.