Contemporary corpus linguistics / / edited by Paul Baker

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.285; 410.1000000000
• Soggetto topico: Corpora (Linguistics); Computational linguistics
• Altri autori: BakerPaul <1972->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Searching for Metaphorical Patterns in Corpora; Chapter 3 Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis; Chapter 4 Corpus Stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot; Chapter 5 The Metalanguage of IMPOLITENESS: Using Sketch Engine to Explore the Oxfor Oxford English Corpus; Chapter 6 Issues in the Design and Development of Software Tools for Corpus Studies: The Case for Collaboration; Chapter 7 Compatibility Between Corpus Annotation Efforts and its Effect on Computational Linguistics ; Chapter 8 Spoken Corpus Analysis: Multimodal Approaches to Language DescriptionChapter 9 Fixed Collocational Patterns in Isolexical and Isotextual Versions of a Corpus; Chapter 10 Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation; Chapter 11 Integrating Learner Corpus Analysis into a Probabilistic Model of Second Language Acquisition; Chapter 12 English Language Teaching and Corpus Linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus; Chapter 13 The Impact of Corpora on Dictionaries; Chapter 14 Using Corpora in Translation Studies: The State of the Art ; Chapter 15 Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of South Asia: Some Current Research DirectionsChapter 16 The Web as Corpus Versus Traditional Corpora: Their Relative Utility for Linguists and Language Learners; Chapter 17 Building and Analysing Corpora of Computer-Mediated Communication; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Corpus Linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools, without the researcher's preconceptions influencing their conclusions. For this reason, Corpus Linguistics is a popular and expanding area of study. Contemporary Corpus Linguistics presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which Corpus Linguistics is being used by researchers. Written by internationally renowned linguists, this volume of seventeen introductory chapters aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corp
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary corpus linguistics
• ISBN: 1-282-87067-X; 9786612870675; 0-8264-4034-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820116703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics