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Zusatztext This book is a refreshing introduction to Web corpus linguistics, connecting ‘traditional’ concepts and methods to the new reality brought about by the Web 2.0. Issues discussed include the exploitation of the potential of ordinary search engines, the reworking of their output format to make it suitable for linguistic analysis, the creation of DIY specialized corpora, and the use of large reference corpora. Gatto provides clear and illuminating examples of how language learners, teachers and researchers, as well as translators and other language services providers can profit from the wealth of linguistic information available online, while at the same time addressing the inherent anarchy and chaos of the Web as corpus. Informationen zum Autor Maristella Gatto is a Researcher and Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Bari, Italy. Klappentext Is the internet a suitable linguistic corpus? How can we use it in corpus techniques? What are the special properties that we need to be aware of? This book answers those questions. The Web is an exponentially increasing source of language and corpus linguistics data. From gigantic static information resources to user-generated Web 2.0 content! the breadth and depth of information available is breathtaking - and bewildering. This book explores the theory and practice of the "web as corpus". It looks at the most common tools and methods used and features a plethora of examples based on the author's own teaching experience. This book also bridges the gap between studies in computational linguistics! which emphasize technical aspects! and studies in corpus linguistics! which focus on the implications for language theory and use. Vorwort Examines the idea of the internet as a corpus to be analyzed using corpus linguistic techniques. Zusammenfassung Is the internet a suitable linguistic corpus? How can we use it in corpus techniques? What are the special properties that we need to be aware of? This book answers those questions.The Web is an exponentially increasing source of language and corpus linguistics data. From gigantic static information resources to user-generated Web 2.0 content, the breadth and depth of information available is breathtaking – and bewildering. This book explores the theory and practice of the “web as corpus”. It looks at the most common tools and methods used and features a plethora of examples based on the author's own teaching experience. This book also bridges the gap between studies in computational linguistics, which emphasize technical aspects, and studies in corpus linguistics, which focus on the implications for language theory and use. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Corpus, Concordance, collocation: Basic notions 2. From Body to Web: An Introduction to the Web as Corpus 3. Challenging Anarchy: Web Search from a Corpus Perspective4. Beyond Ordinary Search Engines: Concordancing the Web 5. Building and Using Comparable Web Corpora: Tools and Methods 6: Sketches of Language and Culture from Large Web Corpora 7. From Download to Upload. The web as Corpus in the web 2.0 era Conclusion Bibliography Index...
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Maristella Gatto is a Researcher and Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Bari, Italy.
