Corpus Linguistics - A Short Introduction

This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introducesthe key concepts in corpus linguistics and provides a brief history of the discipline. The second section expands the study of language and shows how corpus linguistics can advance our study of words and meaning, the benefits of studying the corpora, and how meaning can best be conceptualised. Explainingcorpus linguistics in easy to understand terms, and including a glossary and suggestions for further reading, thisbook will be useful to students trying to get a grasp on this subject.

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• Authors: Anna Cermakova, Anna Cermáková, Wolfgang Teubert, Wolfgang Cermakova Teubert, Teubert Wolfgang, TEUBERT WOLFGANG CERMAKOVA ANNA
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2007
• EAN: 9780826494801
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9480-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, Lexicography, Computational Linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics