Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 What is corpus linguistics?
- 2 Accessing and analysing corpus data
- 3 The web, laws and ethics
- 4 English Corpus Linguistics
- 5 Corpus-based studies of synchronic and diachronic variation
- 6 Neo-Firthian corpus linguistics
- 7 Corpus methods and functionalist linguistics
- 8 The convergence of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and functionalist linguistics
- 9 Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 What is corpus linguistics?
- 2 Accessing and analysing corpus data
- 3 The web, laws and ethics
- 4 English Corpus Linguistics
- 5 Corpus-based studies of synchronic and diachronic variation
- 6 Neo-Firthian corpus linguistics
- 7 Corpus methods and functionalist linguistics
- 8 The convergence of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and functionalist linguistics
- 9 Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The title of this book is Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. As that title may suggest, it is about how corpus linguistics has developed and is employed as a methodology; the major theoretical issues that corpus linguists contend with today; and the problems that researchers using corpora must grapple with in practice, both within linguistics and across disciplines.
This captures in a nutshell, we like to think, what makes this book different from the many excellent introductory textbooks on corpus linguistics that have appeared since the mid-1990s. Our purpose in writing this book is not to introduce the very basics of procedures in corpus linguistics – we do not outline any step-by-step instructions describing how to go about investigating a corpus, and though we do occasionally give some example corpus analyses, we do not go into the details of how to deal with concordances, collocations, keywords and other common outputs from corpus tools. Other books have covered this ground comprehensively (e.g. Biber et al. ; Hunston ; Adolphs ; McEnery et al. ; Hoffmann et al. ), and we do not see any need to duplicate these accounts.
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- Corpus LinguisticsMethod, Theory and Practice, pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011