UID:
almafu_9960846624602883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-42827-6
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1-107-11062-9
Content:
How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and there is still a degree of divergence in how research questions are approached using corpus data. This book uses a framework, based on the work of Karl Popper, to explore a number of fundamental issues in corpus linguistics. It critically evaluates how these issues are tackled, and proposes a set of best practices for future research. It spells out why using corpus data is valuable, what we can learn from using it, and how we may most effectively progress our understanding of language by using such data. It is essential reading for researchers and students of language in general, and of applied linguistics and English language in particular.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One The First Sketch -- 1.1 Linguistics and Science -- 1.2 Realism and Common Sense -- 1.3 The Rational Approach to Language -- 1.4 Presuppositions -- 1.5 Logic -- 1.6 Empiricism -- 1.7 The Notion of Replication -- 1.8 Conclusion -- Chapter Two What Is Science? -- 2.1 A Simple Model of Science -- 2.2 Problems of Induction and Verification -- 2.3 Falsifiability -- 2.4 Testing Theories -- 2.5 Science versus Rhetoric -- 2.6 What Is an Acceptable Theory? -- 2.7 Conviction, Evidence and Testing -- 2.8 The Unattainable - Truth -- 2.9 The Attainable - Provisional Truths -- 2.10 Popper and Theory -- 2.11 The Corpus and Theory -- Chapter Three How to Do Science? -- 3.1 Consistency -- 3.2 Popper and Intuition -- 3.3 Knowing When to Stop -- 3.4 Interaction and Redundancy -- 3.5 Testability -- 3.6 Range -- 3.7 The Hair Shirt of Honesty -- 3.8 Achieving Balance and Simplicity -- 3.9 Probability and Corroboration -- 3.10 Fault Lines -- Chapter Four What Is Social Science and the Digital Humanities? -- 4.1 The Rejection of Naturalism -- 4.2 The Natural, the Social and the Cultural -- 4.3 A Focus on the Individual -- 4.4 Institutions and Traditions -- 4.5 Modelling Reality: The Oedipus Effect and the Rationality Principle -- 4.6 Critical Rationalism, Critical Realism and Social Reality -- 4.7 Propensity in Social Science -- 4.8 Conclusion -- Chapter Five Everyday Linguistics: Form and Function -- 5.1 Prague Schools, Halliday and Axiomatic Functionalism -- 5.2 Imperfect Performance -- 5.3 The Language Learner -- 5.4 Familiarity with Context -- 5.5 Quantifying and Generalising: The Case of Wordlists -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter Six Repetition and Replication: Laying the Groundwork for an Empirical Study.
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6.1 Approaching a Study: Repetition -- 6.1.1 Ssorg's Report -- 6.1.2 The Difficulty of Repetition -- 6.2 Approaching a Study: Replication -- 6.2.1 Design of a Study -- 6.2.2 Formalising Replication -- 6.3 Final Points -- Chapter Seven Replication: Carrying out an Empirical Study -- 7.1 Method: Genuine Test and Surprise -- 7.2 Results: Hypothesis 1 and Hypothesis 2 -- 7.3 Results: Hypothesis 3 and Hypothesis 4 -- 7.4 Results: Hypothesis 5, Hypothesis 6 and Hypothesis 7 -- 7.5 Results: Hypothesis 8 -- 7.6 Discussion -- 7.7 Afterglow -- Chapter Eight Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics -- Appendix 2: Glossary -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McEnery, Tony, 1964- Fundamental principles of corpus linguistics Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781107046696
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107110625
