Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics - A Guide for Research

Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics is an accessible and practical introduction to how corpus linguistics can be used to study language variation and change.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introducing corpus linguistics for sociolinguistics
2. Gender, age and corpus linguistics
3. Style and corpus linguistics
4. Language variation and corpus linguistics
5. Language online and corpus linguistics
6. Historical change and corpus linguistics
7. Diachronic variation in the media and corpus linguistics
8. Conclusion
Index

About the author

Joan O'Sullivan is Lecturer in English Language and Literature and Programme Coordinator at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. She is the author of Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising.
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics and works at the University of Extremadura. She is the author of Orality in Written Texts: Using Historical Corpora to Investigate Irish English (1700-1900) and co-editor of Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics and Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research.
Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. She is author and co-editor of several volumes including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics.

Summary

Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics is an accessible and practical introduction to how corpus linguistics can be used to study language variation and change.

Product details

• Authors: Carolina P Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Amador-Moreno Carolina P., Anne Barron, Barron Anne, Brona Murphy, Joan O’Sullivan, Joan Amador-Moreno Osullivan, Joan O'Sullivan, Joan Amador-Moreno O''sullivan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.01.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9781138802049
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80204-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Language: history & general works, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Language: history and general works, ELT: teaching theory & methods