Corpus Linguistics print on demand - Investigating Language Structure and Use

Klappentext This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing! introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language. Zusammenfassung This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language! based on analysis of large databases of real language examples! and illustrates interesting findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: goals and methods of the corpus-based approach; Part I. Investigating the Use of Language Features: 2. Lexicography; 3. Grammar; 4. Lexico-grammar; 5. The study of discourse characteristics; Part II. Investigating the Characteristics of Varieties: 6. Register variation and English for specific purposes; 7. Language acquisition and development; 8. Historical and stylistic investigations; Part III. Summing Up and Looking Ahead: 9. Conclusion; Part IV. Methodology Boxes: 10. Issues in corpus design; 11. Issues in diachronic corpus design; 12. Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis; 13. Characteristics of tagged corpora; 14. The process of tagging; 15. Norming frequency counts; 16. Statistical measures of lexical associations; 17. The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies; 18. Significance tests and the reporting of statistics; 19. Factor loadings and dimension scores; Appendix: commercially available corpora and analytical tools; References; Index.

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• Authors: Douglas Biber, Douglas (Northern Arizona University) Biber, Biber Douglas, Susan Conrad, Susan (Iowa State University) Conrad, Conrad Susan, Randi Reppen, Randi (Northern Arizona University) Reppen, Reppen Randi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.1998
• EAN: 9780521499576
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49957-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics; Cambridge Approaches to Lingui; Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics