Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Author: Richard J. Whitt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263507

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.

Statistics in Corpus Linguistics

Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Vaclav Brezina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107125707

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

Corpora and the Changing Society

Corpora and the Changing Society
Author: Paula Rautionaho
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Computational linguistics
ISBN: 9789027205438

This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change.

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English
Author: Erik Smitterberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108637078

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics
Author: Michael Burke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2023-05-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000828964

Encompasses a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience Comprises 33 chapters, each providing an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on Includes four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues

Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Ole Schützler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108603483

Corpus linguistics continues to be a vibrant methodology applied across highly diverse fields of research in the language sciences. With the current steep rise in corpus sizes, computational power, statistical literacy and multi-purpose software tools, and inspired by neighbouring disciplines, approaches have diversified to an extent that calls for an intensification of the accompanying critical debate. Bringing together a team of leading experts, this book follows a unique design, comparing advanced methods and approaches current in corpus linguistics, to stimulate reflective evaluation and discussion. Each chapter explores the strengths and weaknesses of different datasets and techniques, presenting a case study and allowing readers to gauge methodological options in practice. Contributions also provide suggestions for further reading, and data and analysis scripts are included in an online appendix. This is an important and timely volume, and will be essential reading for any linguist interested in corpus-linguistic approaches to variation and change.

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Author: Elena Seoane
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027258457

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820

Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
Author: Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009117688

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.

Corpus-based Language Studies

Corpus-based Language Studies
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780415286220

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.