Corpus-based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource BookRoutledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline.
Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Corpus-Based Language Studies:
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Contents
the basics 333 | 3 |
What is a corpus? | 4 |
Why use computers to study language? | 5 |
The corpusbased approach vs the intuitionbased approach | 6 |
a methodology or a theory? | 7 |
Corpusbased vs corpusdriven approaches | 8 |
Summary | 11 |
Looking ahead | 12 |
Stubbs 2001b | 135 |
a summary | 140 |
Summary | 144 |
Unit B3 Lexical and grammatical studies | 145 |
Partington 2004 | 148 |
Carter and McCarthy 1999 | 152 |
Kreyer 2003 | 155 |
Summary | 159 |
Unit A2 Representativeness balance and sampling 13 33 | 13 |
The representativeness of general and specialized corpora | 15 |
Balance | 16 |
Sampling | 19 |
Summary | 21 |
Unit A3 Corpus markup | 22 |
Corpus markup schemes | 23 |
Character encoding | 27 |
Summary | 28 |
Unit A4 Corpus annotation | 29 |
Corpus annotation added value | 30 |
How is corpus annotation achieved? | 33 |
Embedded vs standalone annotation | 44 |
A5 1 | 46 |
Unit | 52 |
A7 1 | 59 |
A7 9 | 67 |
Unit | 71 |
Unit | 77 |
A10 3 | 84 |
Grammatical studies | 85 |
Register variation and genre analysis | 87 |
Dialect distinction and language variety | 90 |
Contrastive and translation studies | 91 |
Diachronic study and language change | 96 |
Language learning and teaching | 97 |
Semantics | 103 |
Pragmatics | 104 |
Sociolinguistis | 108 |
Discourse analysis | 111 |
Stylistics and literary studies | 113 |
Forensic linguistics | 116 |
What corpora cannot tell us | 120 |
Summary | 121 |
Looking ahead | 122 |
EXTENSION | 123 |
Unit B1 Corpus representativeness and balance | 125 |
Atkins Clear and Ostler 1992 | 128 |
Summary | 130 |
an ongoing debate | 131 |
Unit B4 Language variation studies | 160 |
Hyland 1999 | 165 |
Lehmann 2002 | 169 |
Kachru 2003 | 174 |
Summary | 177 |
Unit B5 Contrastive and diachronic studies | 178 |
888 | 191 |
Unit B6 Language teaching and learning | 195 |
Unit C1 Collocation and pedagogical lexicography Case study 1 | 208 |
what do corpora have to say? Case study 2 | 227 |
Unit C3 L2 acquisition of grammatical morphemes Case study 3 | 247 |
Problemoriented corpus annotation | 251 |
Discussion | 260 |
Summary | 263 |
Unit C4 Swearing in modern British English Case study 4 | 264 |
Spoken vs written register | 265 |
Variations within spoken English | 269 |
Variations within written English | 279 |
Summary | 285 |
Further study | 286 |
Unit C5 Conversation and speech in American English Case study 5 | 287 |
Salient linguistic features | 288 |
Basic statistical data from the corpus | 293 |
The dimension scores of three genres | 303 |
The keyword approach to genre analysis | 308 |
Summary | 319 |
Further study | 320 |
Unit C6 Domains text types aspect marking and EnglishChinese translation Case study 6 | 321 |
The corpus data | 323 |
Translation of aspect marking | 324 |
Translation and aspect marking | 336 |
Domain and aspect marking | 338 |
Text type and aspect marking | 340 |
Summary | 341 |
Further study | 343 |
Glossary | 344 |
Bibliography | 352 |
Appendix of useful Internet links | 379 |
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