UID:
almahu_9949702818702882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 419 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004333710
Series Statement:
Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 49
Content:
This book provides an up-to-date survey of current issues and approaches in corpus linguistics in the form of twenty-two recent research articles. The articles cover a wide range of topics illustrating the diversity of research that is characteristic of corpus linguistics today. Central themes are the relationship between theory, intuition and corpus data and the role of corpora in linguistic research. The majority of the articles are empirical studies of specific aspects of English, ranging from lexis and grammar to discourse and pragmatics. Other areas explored are language variation, language change and development, language learning, cross-linguistic comparisons of English and other languages, and the development of linguistic software tools. The contributors to the volume include some of the leading figures in the field such as M.A.K. Halliday, John Sinclair, Geoffrey Leech and Michael Hoey. The theoretical and methodological issues addressed in the volume demonstrate clearly the steady advance of an expanding discipline inspired by an empirical, usage-based approach to the study of language. The volume is essential reading for researchers and students interested in the use of computer corpora in linguistic research.
Note:
Preliminary material /
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Introduction /
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The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory /
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Intuition and annotation - the discussion continues /
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Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory /
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Corpus data in a usage-based cognitive grammar /
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Putting 'putting verbs' to the test of corpora /
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Esphoric reference and pseudo-definiteness /
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Why "an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm": A corpus-based comparative study of metaphor in British and American political discourse /
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Signalling spokenness in personal advertisements on the Web: The case of ESL countries in South East Asia /
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Textual colligation: a special kind of lexical priming /
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Adverbials in IT-cleft constructions /
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On the pragmatic functions of let's utterances /
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Methodological problems in corpus-based historical pragmatics. The case of English directives /
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Measure noun constructions: degrees of delexicalization and grammaticalization /
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Yourself: a general-purpose emphatic-reflexive? /
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Aspects of spoken vocabulary development in the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus of Children's English /
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Demonstrative reference as a cohesive device in advanced learner writing: a corpus-based study /
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Translations as semantic mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet /
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Physical contact verbs in English and Swedish from the perspective of crosslinguistic lexicology /
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Exploring theme contrastively: the choice of model /
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Welcoming children, pets and guests: towards functional equivalence in the languages of 'Agriturismo' and 'Farmhouse Holidays' /
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Using WebCorp in the classroom for building specialized dictionaries /
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The accidental corpus: some issues in extracting linguistic information from the Web /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23) Göteborg 22-26 May 2002 Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2004, ISBN 9789042017412
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Konferenzschrift
