Explorations in Corpus Linguistics

Explorations in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Antoinette Renouf
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9789042007512

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

Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes
Author: Vander Viana
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000506606

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

Corpus Linguistics for Education
Author: Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429516762

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.

Discourse in the Professions

Discourse in the Professions
Author: ... Connor-Upton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027222879

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.

Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R

Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R
Author: Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004410341

Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions as well as introductory examples of how to use R for such research.

Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning

Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
Author: Laura Gavioli
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027222923

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.

Corpus-based Language Studies

Corpus-based Language Studies
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780415286237

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.

Directions in Corpus Linguistics

Directions in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Jan Svartvik
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110867273

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.

Research Genres

Research Genres
Author: John M. Swales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521533348

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.

Corpus-linguistic applications

Corpus-linguistic applications
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9042028017

This volume provides an overview of four currently booming areas in the discipline of corpus linguistics. The first section is concerned with studies of the history and development of morphological and syntactic phenomena in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. The second section contains case studies investigating the functions and contexts of use of different morphological and syntactic forms in English, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. The third section contains studies in the field of genre and register from settings as diverse as health, call center, academic, and legal discourse. The final section features papers refining existing, and exploring new, corpus-linguistic methods: dispersions, text mining, corpus similarity, as well as the development of extraction patterns and the evaluation of tagging methods.