Corpus Linguistics

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Wolfgang Teubert, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Corpora—large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically—provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora...

Published June 14th 2007 by Routledge.

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Introducing Electronic Text Analysis

A Practical Guide for Language and Literary Studies

By Svenja Adolphs

Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to corpora – bodies of linguistic data. Written specifically for students studying this topic for the...

Published June 5th 2006 by Routledge.

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Investigating Media Discourse

By ANNE O'KEEFFE

Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone-ins and political...

Published May 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Investigating Classroom Discourse

By Steve Walsh

Introducing language use and interaction as the basis of good teaching and learning, this invaluable book equips teachers and researchers with the tools to analyze...

Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge.

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Corpus-Based Language Studies

An Advanced Resource Book

By Anthony McEnery, Richard Xiao, Yukio Tono

Corpus-Based Language Studies:

• covers the major theoretical approaches to the use of corpus data
• adopts a ‘how to’ approach with exercises and cases, affording students with the...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions

A Corpus-based Study

By Sebastian Hoffmann

What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is...

Published May 12th 2005 by Routledge.

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Public Discourses of Gay Men

That's So Gay

By Paul Baker

Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many...

Published May 6th 2005 by Routledge.

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Lexical Priming

A New Theory of Words and Language

By Michael Hoey

Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used...

Published April 29th 2005 by Routledge.

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Discourse Markers Across Languages

By Siepmann Dirk

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides...

Published March 16th 2005 by Routledge.

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Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies

By Maeve Olohan

The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of analyzing the process of translation, is growing....

Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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