Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics /
This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also comple...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Edinburgh sociolinguistics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also complement qualitative traditions of enquiry such as interactional sociolinguistics. This text covers a range of different topics within sociolinguistics:*Analysing demographic variation*Comparing language use across different cultures*Examining language change over time*Studying transcripts of spoken inte. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780748631469 0748631461 |