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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957901803321

Autore

Partington Alan

Titolo

Patterns and meanings : using corpora for English language research and teaching / / Alan Partington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1998

ISBN

1-282-16312-4

9786612163128

90-272-9891-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

420/.285

Soggetti

English language - Research - Data processing

English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing

English language - Study and teaching - Data processing

Computational linguistics

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. 151-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Patterns and meanings; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Collocation and Phrase Patterns; 2 Collocation and Synonymy; 3 True and False Friends; 4 Connotation and Semantic Prosody; 5 Syntax; 6 Cohesion in Texts; 7Metaphor; 8 ''Unusuality ''; 9 General Conclusion; References; Index; the series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Sommario/riassunto

Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem. Language phenomena investigated include word sense, phraseology and syntax, metaphor and creative use, text reference, idiom, and translation. Emphasis is given to information that usually cannot be found in dictionaries, grammars, language textbooks or other resources, but which the study of cor