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Language, people, numbers : corpus linguistics and society /

The contributions to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide range of areas in linguistics. Corpora can be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gerbig, Andrea, Mason, Oliver, M.A
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Language and computers ; no. 64.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language, People, Numbers; Table of Contents; Introduction; Contributing Authors; A Select Bibliography; Michael Stubbs: a theoretician of applied linguistics; Borrowed ideas; How 'systemic' is a large corpus of English?; Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics; Developing language education policy in Europe
  • and searching for theory; The semiotic patterning of Cædmon's Hymn as a 'hypersign'; Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics 'with critical notes'; Travelogues in time and space: a diachronic and intercultural genre study
  • An extended view of extended lexical units: tracking development and useI don't know
  • differences in patterns of collocation and semantic prosody in phrases of different lengths; Stubbing your toe against a hard mass of facts: corpus data and the phraseology of STUB and TOE; Stringing together a sentence: linearity and the lexis-syntax interface; 'Sailing the islands or watching from the dock': the treacherous simplicity of a metaphor. How we handle 'new (electronic) hypertext' versus 'old (printed) text'; Linking the verbal and visual: new directions for corpus linguistics