Using Corpora in Discourse AnalysisThis 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, 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.
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Corpus Building | 25 |
Frequency and Dispersion | 47 |
Concordances | 71 |
Collocates | 95 |
Keyness | 121 |
Beyond Collocation | 153 |
Conclusion | 177 |
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References to this book
Corpus and Context: Investigating Pragmatic Functions in Spoken Discourse Svenja Adolphs Limited preview - 2008 |
Advances in Discourse Studies Vijay Kumar Bhatia,John Flowerdew,Rodney H. Jones No preview available - 2008 |