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Corpus linguistics on the move : exploring and understanding English through corpora /

Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora' comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: López-Couso, María José (Editor ), Méndez-Naya, Beléna (Editor ), Núñez Pertejo, Paloma (Editor ), Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M. (Ignacio Miguel), 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Language and computers ; 79.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1 From the Fringe to the Mainstream: English Corpus Linguistics Moving Ahead
  • Part 1 Issues in Corpus Compilation
  • Chapter 2 English Urban Vernaculars, 1400-1700: Digitizing Text from Manuscript
  • Chapter 3 Creating a Corpus of Student Writing in Economics: Structure and Representativeness
  • Chapter 4 Ongoing Changes and Advanced L2 Use of English: Evidence from New Corpus Resources
  • Part 2 Investigating Register Variation through Corpora
  • Chapter 5 Verbs and Verb Phrases in Advanced Dutch EFL Writing: Case Studies in Quantitative and Qualitative EFL Analysis
  • Chapter 6 Discourse-Organizing Metadiscourse in Novice Academic English
  • Chapter 7 Passives in Academic Writing: Comparing Research Articles and Student Essays Across Four Disciplines
  • Chapter 8 Adverbial Hapax Legomena in News Text: Why do some Coinages Remain Hapax?
  • Part 3 Corpora and Grammar: Examining Grammatical Variation in Space
  • Chapter 9 English in South Africa: The Case of Past-Referring Verb Forms
  • Chapter 10 A Look at Participial Constructions with Get in Hong Kong English
  • Chapter 11 Who is the/a/Ø Professor at Your University? A Construction Grammar View on Changing Article Use with Single Role Predicates in American English
  • Chapter 12 Clause Fragments in English Dialogue
  • Part 4 Corpus Insights into the Pragmatics of Spoken English
  • Chapter 13 The Expression of Directive Meaning: A Corpus-Based Study on the Variation between Imperatives, Conditionals, and Insubordinate If-Clauses in Spoken British English*
  • Chapter 14 Taboo Language and Swearing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English: A Diachronic Study Based on the Old Bailey Corpus
  • Chapter 15 The 'Humour' Element in Engineering Lectures Across Cultures: An Approach to Pragmatic Annotation
  • Index.