Hans Lindquist

Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web can be used as a source for linguistic investigations. Each chapter has study questions, exercises and suggestions for further reading.Students will benefit from the book's*Clear language and structure *Well-defined terminology *Step-by-step instructions *Generous, up-to-date exemplification from different varieties of English around the world *Accompanying web-page with exercises and updated information about freely accessible corpora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748631407
• Artikelnr.: 42369699

Autorenporträt

Hans Lindquist is professor of English Linguistics at Malmö University, Sweden. He has taught English in Switzerland, the United States, Japan, New Zealand and the Gambia and co-edited volumes on translation theory, the major varieties of English, and corpora and grammaticalization. Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of Languages at Linneaus University. His research interests include change and variation in English grammar and phraseology, pragmatics and translation studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelims: List of figures; List of tables; To readers; List of abbrevations
1: Corpus linguistics
2: Counting, calculating and annotating
3: Looking for lexis
4: Checking colligations and collocations
5: Finding phrases
6: Metaphor and metonymy
7: Grammar
8: Male and female
9: Language change
10: Corpus linguistics in cyberspace
Further reading