Corpora in Applied Linguistics

Language and linguistics, Applied linguistics and second language acquisition,

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Designing a corpus; 3. Learning from a corpus: finding pattern in concordance lines; 4. Foundational quantitative concepts in corpus linguistics; 5. Exploring corpora through quantitative measures; 6. The language learner and the corpus; 7. Corpora and the analysis of discourse; 8. Further applications of corpus reearch; 9. Corpora and language theory; 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her recent publications include Corpus Approaches to Evaluation (Routledge 2011) and Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Paul Thompson, Routledge, 2019). She is a former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.

Summary

Providing an accessible but thorough grounding in the fast-developing field of Corpus Linguistics, this book will be standard reading for advanced students of Applied Linguistics. The second edition has been completely rewritten, with extensive updates throughout, and new chapters on quantitative methods and on corpora and language theory.

Foreword

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hunston, Susan (University of Birmingham) Hunston, Hunston Susan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781108425094
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42509-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Computational Linguistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Historical and comparative linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics