Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: *collocations, *keyness *concordances *dispersion plots *building and annotating corpora Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Corpus Building
3. Frequency and Dispersion
4. Concordances
5. Collates
6. Beyond Collocation
7. Keyness
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Paul Baker

Product details

• Authors: Paul Baker
• Assisted by: Ken Hyland (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2006
• EAN: 9780826477248
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-7724-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Continuum Discourse; Continuum Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc