Michael Stubbs

Words and Phrases

Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. It places lexis and phraseology at the centre of semantics and pragmatics. Words and Phrases starts from traditional concepts of lexical semantics, including meaning as use, denotation and connotation, lexical field, sense relations, phraseology and collocation. It also uses innovative corpus data to explore these concepts with an exciting new technology. The main chapters are detailed case studies of words in collocations, words in texts and words in culture. Concluding chapters discuss the implications of corpus analysis for linguistic theory, especially lexico-grammar and theories of competence and performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780631208327
• ISBN-10: 0631208321
• Artikelnr.: 54573871

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 ofEnglish.

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 inEnglish.

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

10. Data and Dualisms: On Corpus Methods and PluralistModels.

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