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Explorations in Corpus Linguistics

Author : Antoinette Renouf

Publisher : Rodopi

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 15,6 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9789042007512

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Book Description

Contains a selection of 22 papers presented at a May 1997 conference held at the University of Liverpool. Papers are grouped in three sections on corpus creation, corpus analysis, and corpus linguistic results, and shed light on issues central to mainstream corpus linguistics and of concern to other fields of language description and processing. Discussion encompasses debate on representative corpora as opposed to free text collections, the need for large-scale electronic corpus resources, pragmatics and semantics, data-informed models of language, and an Internet-based grammatical facility. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes

Author : Vander Viana

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 11,90 MB

Release : 2021-12-30

Category : Education

ISBN : 1000506606

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Book Description

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students’, practitioners’ and researchers’ knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly discussion of the key concepts, practices and research applications of corpus linguistics which are relevant to the EAP community. The volume: • empowers readers to compile and analyze EAP-relevant corpora to support their practice; • draws on open-access resources, allowing readers in all contexts to engage in corpus analyses; • examines how corpus studies have advanced the description of spoken, written and computer-mediated academic discourses; • contains numerous reflective and hands-on tasks. Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes is an essential book for EAP students, practitioners and researchers who wish to develop corpus analytical skills to support their learning, teaching and research practice. It is equally important to novice corpus linguists who wish to find out how they can contribute to the ever-expanding area of EAP.



Corpus Linguistics for Education

Author : Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 45,58 MB

Release : 2020-07-30

Category : Education

ISBN : 0429516762

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Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book: • covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, transcription and annotation; • demonstrates the use of available corpora and desktop and online corpus analysis tools to conduct original analyses; • features case studies and step-by-step guides within each chapter; • emphasises the use of interview data in research projects. Corpus Linguistics for Education is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in education.



Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning

Author : Laura Gavioli

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 28,21 MB

Release : 2005-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027222923

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This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of corpus linguistics. The ideas presented here are developed from the Data-Driven Learning approach introduced by Tim Johns in the early nineties. The experience of watching students perform corpus analysis provides the basis for the two main observations in the book: a) corpus work provides students with a useful source of information about ESP language features, b) the process of "search-and-discovery" implied in the method of corpus analysis may facilitate language learning and promote autonomy in learning language use. The discussion is carried out on the basis of a series of corpus-based "explorations" by students and provides suggestions for developing new tasks and tools for language learners.



Discourse in the Professions

Author : ... Connor-Upton

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 350 pages

File Size : 45,76 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027222879

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This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to better train newcomers to the genres used in various professional contexts. The contributions to this book show that specialized corpora of specific genres from a variety of fields allow us to make more relevant observations about the function and use of language for particular purposes. The specialized corpora examined include written and spoken academic genres, written and spoken business and legal genres, and written philanthropic genres. The book showcases a variety of approaches to analyzing the discourse of specialized corpora, and each chapter concludes with a reflection on the practical and pedagogical implications of the analysis.



Corpus-based Language Studies

Author : Tony McEnery

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 12,87 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780415286237

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Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber, Widdowson, Sinclair, Carter and McCarthy.



Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R

Author : Stefan Th. Gries

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 13,25 MB

Release : 2019-11-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004410341

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Book Description

In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.



Directions in Corpus Linguistics

Author : Jan Svartvik

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 501 pages

File Size : 30,7 MB

Release : 2011-06-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110867273

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.



Developing Linguistic Corpora

Author : Martin Wynne

Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 27,94 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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A linguistic corpus is a collection of texts which have been selected and brought together so that language can be studied on the computer. Today, corpus linguistics offers some of the most powerful new procedures for the analysis of language, and the impact of this dynamic and expanding sub-discipline is making itself felt in many areas of language study. In this volume, a selection of leading experts in various key areas of corpus construction offer advice in a readable and largely non-technical style to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is well designed and fit for the intended purpose. This guide is aimed at those who are at some stage of building a linguistic corpus. Little or no knowledge of corpus linguistics or computational procedures is assumed, although it is hoped that more advanced users will find the guidelines here useful. It is also aimed at those who are not building a corpus, but who need to know something about the issues involved in the design of corpora in order to choose between available resources and to help draw conclusions from their studies.



Research Genres

Author : John M. Swales

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 20,76 MB

Release : 2004-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780521533348

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This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. The book is full of carefully worded detail and each chapter ends with suggestions for pedagogical practice. The volume closes with evaluations of contrastive rhetoric, applied corpus linguistics, and critical approaches to EAP. Research Genres provides a rich and scholarly account of this key area.