Corpus Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Susan Conrad, Iowa State University
Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University
$67.00
USDThis book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.
- Introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer
- Examples of analyses investigating real research questions in every chapter to make every explanation concrete
- Methodology boxes provide concise, clear explanations of issues involved in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based methods
Reviews & endorsements
"This book could be used as part of the curriculum for an introductory corpus linguistics class, especially for students with a humanities background." Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Computational Linguistics
Product details
May 1998Paperback
9780521499576
312 pages
199 × 130 × 20 mm
0.37kg
33 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: goals and methods of the corpus-based approach
- Part I. Investigating the Use of Language Features:
- 2. Lexicography
- 3. Grammar
- 4. Lexico-grammar
- 5. The study of discourse characteristics
- Part II. Investigating the Characteristics of Varieties:
- 6. Register variation and English for specific purposes
- 7. Language acquisition and development
- 8. Historical and stylistic investigations
- Part III. Summing Up and Looking Ahead:
- 9. Conclusion
- Part IV. Methodology Boxes:
- 10. Issues in corpus design
- 11. Issues in diachronic corpus design
- 12. Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis
- 13. Characteristics of tagged corpora
- 14. The process of tagging
- 15. Norming frequency counts
- 16. Statistical measures of lexical associations
- 17. The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies
- 18. Significance tests and the reporting of statistics
- 19. Factor loadings and dimension scores
- Appendix: commercially available corpora and analytical tools
- References
- Index.
