Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics

Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics
Author: Ken Hyland
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441107800

Demonstrates the importance of corpus research to applied linguistics, covering a range of areas.

Corpus-linguistic applications

Corpus-linguistic applications
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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.

Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics

Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Author: Mari Carmen Campoy
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783039112753

This volume explores the opportunities that spoken corpora offer and the challenges of research with such corpora. The use and applications of spoken corpora are discussed from the perspective of both language analysis and language pedagogy. Twelve chapters written by corpus linguists analyse an extensive number of spoken corpora based on the oral production of speakers as varied as language learners, users of English as Lingua Franca, native speakers, or speakers of English in academic contexts. This book also highlights the growing emphasis on the use of corpus-based research by examining the implications of corpus findings in educational settings.

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

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.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics
Author: Anne O'Keeffe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1263
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135153620

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent years it has seen an ever-widening application in a variety of fields: computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies. Bringing together experts in the key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six themes which take the reader through building and designing a corpus to using a corpus to study literature and translation. A comprehensive introduction covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. Structured around five headings for ease of reference, each contribution includes further reading sections with three to five key texts highlighted and annotated to facilitate further exploration of the topics. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics is the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.

Exploring Corpus Linguistics

Exploring Corpus Linguistics
Author: Winnie Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136628142

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics consists of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, designed for those entering postgraduate studies and language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative "practice to theory" approach, with a ‘back to front’ structure which takes the reader from real life problems and issues in the field, then enters into a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns. The final section concludes by tying the practical issues to theoretical foundations. Additional features include tasks with commentaries, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated further reading section. Corpus linguistics is a key area of applied linguistics and one of the most rapidly developing. Winnie Cheng’s practical approach guides readers in acquiring the relevant knowledge and theories to enable the analysis, explanation and interpretation of language using corpus methods. Throughout the book practical classroom examples, concordance based analyses and tasks such as designing and conducting mini-projects are used to connect and explain the conceptual and practical aspects of corpus linguistics. Exploring Corpus Linguistics is an essential textbook for post-graduate/graduate students new to the field and for advanced undergraduates studying English Language and Applied Linguistics.

Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Joanna Kopaczyk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264562

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the fundamental requirement of a theory-neutral starting point. This volume proposes the term pattern-driven as a more precise alternative. The chapters illustrate a variety of methods that fall under this broad methodology, such as the extraction of lexical bundles, POS-grams and semantic frames, and demonstrate how these approaches can uncover new understandings of both synchronic and diachronic linguistic phenomena.

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.