UID:
almahu_9949615169502882
Format:
1 online resource (387 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789027249517
Series Statement:
Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series vol. 111
Content:
"As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society, and consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods for investigating the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Korhonen, Minna Exploring Language and Society with Big Data Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2023 ISBN 9789027214065
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies.