| Autore |
Scott Mike <1946->
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006
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| Descrizione fisica |
x, 203 p
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| Disciplina |
418.00285
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
TribbleChris
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| Collana |
Studies in corpus linguistics
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| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Computer-assisted instruction
Discourse analysis - Data processing - Study and teaching
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| ISBN |
1-282-15593-8
9786612155932
90-272-9363-5
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Textual Patterns -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Texts in language study and language education -- Introduction -- Why have corpus-based methods caused an upheaval? -- A text focus, a language focus, a culture focus or a brain focus? -- The notion of context -- Word-lists -- Introduction -- Transformation -- Selection -- Kinds of word-list -- Alphabetically ordered -- Frequency ordered -- Other possible orderings -- One-word vs. n-word clusters -- Adding contextual information to wordlists -- Characteristics of word-lists -- The nature of high-frequency items -- Medium-frequency items -- Hapax legomena -- The distribution curve and the notion of a "power law'' -- The notion of "consistency'' -- What then do word-lists offer? -- Notes -- Concordances -- Introduction -- What is meant by co-occurrence? -- How much overlap is there between textual co-occurrence and the mental lexicon? -- Handling a concordance -- Patterns -- Clusters -- Is ago text-initial? - The dispersion plot -- Notes -- Key words of individual texts -- Introduction -- Keyness -- An example -- Exclamations in Romeo -- Different reference corpora -- Where do the KWs come in the text? -- Local versus global KWs -- Links between KWs -- Wide- and narrow-span linkages -- KWs and part of speech -- Key words and genres -- Introduction -- Keyword linkage between texts -- Formal patterns of Keyword linkage -- Examples of Keyword linkage between texts -- Associates -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II -- General English language teaching -- Summary -- Introduction -- Resources -- Approach -- Procedure -- Step 1 - Select texts -- Step 2 - Make wordlists -- Step 3 - Make Keyword lists -- Step 4 - Save lists as text files -- Step 5 - Create an Excel workbook containing all the data -- Findings -- Written academic vs. conversation -- Of.
That -- Looking at a middle ground: Keywords in Fiction and Spoken Academic -- Spoken Academic and Fiction Keywords referenced against BNC Sampler Written -- Spoken Academic and Fiction Keywords referenced against BNC Spoken -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Business and professional communication -- Summary -- Introduction -- Resources -- Approach -- Preliminary analysis -- Example A -- Example B -- Example C -- Example D -- Preliminary analysis: Discussion -- KW analysis - hope -- Discourse moves -- Contractions -- Ellipsis -- Vague language -- Lexical density -- KW analysis: Discussion -- Notes -- Appendix -- English for academic purposes -- Summary -- Introduction -- Resources -- Approach -- Analysis 1: Clusters in academic writing in English -- Single word lists -- Two-word clusters -- Three-word clusters -- Four-word clusters -- Cluster lists - conclusion -- Analysis 2: Clusters in apprentice texts -- The Poznan literature MA dissertation corpus -- Comparing expert with apprentice academic writing -- Comparing apprentice academic writing with general academic texts and expert texts in literary studies -- BNC_LIT vs. POZ_LIT - mapping similarity and difference: Three-word clusters -- BNC_LIT vs. POZ_LIT - mapping similarity and difference: Four-word clusters -- Analysis 1 -- Analysis 2 -- Analysis 3 -- Analysis 4 -- Analysis 5 -- Identifying contrast between apprentice and expert performances - An interim conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix - BNC texts -- Poznan literature dissertation titles -- What counts in current journalism -- Summary -- Introduction -- Resources -- Approach -- Analysis 1: Who, what, where? -- Who? -- Second step - Check the immediate collocates -- What and where? -- Analysis 1: Conclusion -- Analysis 2: It's a man's world - gender balance in the Guardian Weekly's news reporting -- Titles -- Pronouns -- Discussion 1: Family words.
Discussion 2: Nouns -- Discussion 3: Verbs -- Analysis 2: Conclusion -- Analysis 3: A changing world - UK news 1996-2001 -- UK News top five - GW_UK_NEWS vs. BNC -- UK News top twenty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Counting things in texts you can't count on -- Summary -- Introduction -- Resources -- The text -- Tools -- Analysis 1 -- Pivot 1 -- Pivot 2 -- Pivot 3 -- Analysis 2 -- Wordlists and keyword lists -- Concordances and keywords -- But can you count on it? -- Conclusion -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827520203321 |
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Patterns of text : in honour of Michael Hoey
