From data to evidence in English language research / / edited by Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968991803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019]
• ISBN: 9789004390652; 9004390650; 9789004390645; 9004390642
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Collana: Language and computers ; ; Volume 83
• Disciplina: 420.1/88
• Soggetti: English language - Research - Data processing; English language - History - Data processing; Corpora (Linguistics); Historical linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data / Terttu Nevalainen , Carla Suhr and and Irma Taavitsainen -- Evidence from “Big Data” -- Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics / Antoinette Renouf -- Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design / Mark Davies -- Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English / Lieselotte Anderwald -- Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English / Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko -- Evidence from “Rich Data”? -- Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data / Thomas Kohnen -- Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective / Tanja Rütten -- Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions / Daniela Landert -- Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence / Irma ; Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider -- Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? -- Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor / Tony McEnery and Helen Baker -- An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb , Hannah Kermes , Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich -- Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets / Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö -- Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics / David Brett and Antonio Pinna -- Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-Genre Corpus Approach / Mikko Laitinen , Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw -- Back Matter -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.