Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and UseThis volume investigates the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide concrete descriptions of the research methods and advantages of corpus-based techniques. Ten methodology boxes provide concise explanations of the issues in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based studies and there is an appendix of resources for corpus-based investigation. |
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Contents
Lexicography | 21 |
Grammar | 55 |
Lexicogrammar | 84 |
The study of discourse characteristics | 106 |
Investigating the characteristics of varieties | 133 |
Register variation and English for Specific Purposes | 135 |
Language acquisition and development | 172 |
Historical and stylistic investigations | 203 |
3 Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis | 254 |
4 Characteristics of tagged corpora | 257 |
5 The process of tagging | 261 |
6 Norming frequency counts | 263 |
7 Statistical measures of lexical associations | 265 |
8 The unit of analysis in corpusbased studies | 269 |
9 Significance tests and the reporting of statistics | 275 |
10 Factor loadings and dimension scores | 278 |
Summing up and looking ahead | 231 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Methodology boxes | 243 |
1 Issues in corpus design | 246 |
2 Issues in diachronic corpus design | 251 |
commercially available corpora and analytical tools | 281 |
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| Title | Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics |
| Authors | Douglas Biber, Biber Douglas, Professor Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen |
| Contributors | Cambridge University, Jean Aitchison |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0521499577, 9780521499576 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Natural Language Processing Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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