Michael Stubbs

Words and Phrases

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a detailed account of the place of lexis and phraseology in linguistic theory.

Contains extensive illustrations from corpus data and detailed case studies of words in phrases, words in texts, and words in culture.

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This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.

Produktdetails

• Language In Society
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780631208334
• ISBN-10: 063120833X
• Artikelnr.: 13601126

Autorenporträt

Michael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier in Germany. He was Chair of BAAL (the British Association for Applied Linguistics) from 1988 to 1991. He has published widely on language in education, on text and discourse analysis, and on corpus linguistics. His previous books include Discourse Analysis (Blackwell 1983), Educational Linguistics (Blackwell 1986), and Text and Corpus Analysis (Blackwell 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, Concordances and Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Data Conventions and Terminology.

Notes on Corpus Data and Software.

Introduction.

1. Words in Use: Introductory Examples.

2. Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts.

3. Words in Phrases 1: Concepts, Data and Methods.

4. Words in Phrases 2: A Case Study of the Phraseology of English.

5. Words in Texts 1: Words, Phrases and Text Cohesion.

6. Words in Texts 2: A Case Study of a Short Story.

7. Words in Culture 1: Case Studies of Cultural Keywords.

8. Words in Culture 2: Case Studies of Loan Words in English.

9. Words, Phrases and Connotations: On Lexico-Grammar and Evaluative Language.

10. Data and Dualisms: On Corpus Methods and Pluralist Models.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This invaluable book places words and their phraseology at thecentre of an account of language that covers meaning, discourse,culture, and much more. The author successfully demystifies his owndiscovery processes, providing the reader with tools for furtherinvestigation. The book's clarity and depth make it indispensablefor students and researchers alike." Susan Hunston, Universityof Birmingham

"Stubbs does a great job of demonstrating the use of corpustechniques for the analysis of lexical semantics. He shows that itis indeed possible to analyse meaning by looking at corpus data,and that the way meaning is constructed through repeated patternsof usage can only be investigated by doing so. His style is veryexplicit, and his prose is easily readable. I well definitely beusing this book in my seminars next term." Oliver Mason,Literary and Linguistic Computing