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Corpus Dialectology

Author : Elissa Pustka

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 40,35 MB

Release : 2023-08-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 902724958X

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Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and statistical analysis. This approach considers phenomena that have received little attention to date, such as migration, language contact, mobility and educational level, as well as the differentiation between rural and urban spaces. Transparently described and intersubjectively comprehensible encodings permit the enhancement of dialectometry in the context of Digital Humanities and further development of linguistic theories of variation and change, as well as different levels of structure (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics). This book contains nine chapters on ongoing corpus dialectological research projects. They discuss current issues of data collection, for example the validity of crowdsourced data, explore challenges and possibilities of data analysis and offer theoretical reflections on virtual Romance geolinguistics.



Corpus-based Perspectives in Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 15,76 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027233189

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UBLI has conducted field surveys since 2002 and built spoken language corpora for French, Spanish, Italian (Salentino dialect), Russian, Malaysian, Turkish, Japanese, and Canadian multilinguals. This volume features new research presented at the UBLI second workshop on Corpus Linguistics – Research Domain, which was held on September 14, 2006. The first part consisting of eleven presentations to this workshop shows a wide range of subjects within the area of corpus-based research, such as dictionary, linguistic atlas, dialect, translation, ancient texts, non-standard texts, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and natural language processing. The second part of this volume comprises ten additional contributions to both written and spoken corpora by the members and research assistants of UBLI.



Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 25,93 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027207704

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Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as "dynamic synchrony." This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to result in a future systematic change through symptomatic synchronic variation. Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the synchronic conditions for diachronic changes, over both long and short spans of time. Most of the 14 papers in this volume represent studies on synchronic and diachronic variations based on such corpus data. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.



Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

Author : Alexandra U. Esimaje

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 48,18 MB

Release : 2019-02-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027262934

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Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new corpus initiatives both within and outside Africa that aim to compile various corpora of African Englishes. Moreover, it contains cutting-edge corpus-based research on African Englishes and the use of corpora in pedagogic contexts within African institutions. This volume thus serves both as a practical introduction to corpus compilation (Part I of the book), corpus-based research (Part II) and the application of corpora in language teaching (Part III), and is intended both for those researchers not yet familiar with corpus linguistics and as a reference work for all international researchers investigating the linguistic properties of African Englishes.



Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Author : Rhona Alcorn

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 17,16 MB

Release : 2019-01-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1474430554

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Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.



The Handbook of Dialectology

Author : Charles Boberg

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 616 pages

File Size : 10,76 MB

Release : 2018-01-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1118827554

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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry



Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation

Author : Randi Reppen

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 41,5 MB

Release : 2002-11-29

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027296162

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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or registers. Part 1: “Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features” focuses on the study of specific words, expressions, or grammatical constructions, to study variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature. Part 2: “Exploring dialect and register variation” describes salient characteristics of dialects or registers and the patterns of variation across varieties. Part 3: “Exploring Historical Variation” applies these same two major perspectives to historical variation. One recurring theme is the extent to which linguistic variation depends on register differences, reflecting the importance of register as a key methodological and thematic concern in current corpus linguistic research.



Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Author : Richard J. Whitt

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 347 pages

File Size : 38,68 MB

Release : 2018-11-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027263507

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.



The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

Author : Douglas Biber

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 757 pages

File Size : 28,23 MB

Release : 2015-06-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1316298701

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.



Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 38,90 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027207682

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This new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international symposium hosted by the Global Center of Excellence Program "Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (CbLLE)" throughout 2008.