Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary - A Guide for Research

List of contents

Introduction Chapter 1 What is corpus linguistics? Chapter 2 Corpus analysis: tools and statistics Chapter 3 What is vocabulary: terminology, conceptualizations and research issues Chapter 4 Frequency and vocabulary Chapter 5 Corpora, phraseology and formulaic language Chapter 6 Corpora and teaching vocabulary Chapter 7 Corpora and learner vocabulary Chapter 8 Specialized corpora and vocabulary Chapter 9 Discourse, pragmatics and vocabulary Chapter 10 Summary and research projects Glossary Commentary on Tasks

About the author

Pawel Szudarski is a Teaching Associate in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Summary

This book provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. It explains how corpus tools can be applied to explore key vocabulary-related research questions such as: How can corpus data help us understand the lexicon? Which words are the most frequent ones? How is spoken vocabulary different from written vocabulary?

Product details

• Authors: Pawe Szudarski, Paweł Szudarski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138187214
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18721-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Grammar & vocabulary, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Historical and comparative linguistics