A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English.
The third edition of this successful text 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 authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, gender and language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations as well as including a section on creating your own corpus. Each chapter includes new study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading. Readers also benefit from an accompanying web-page with exercises and updated information about freely accessible corpora.
Arvustused
I am glad to see the third edition of this well-established introduction to English corpus-linguistics. It has maintained its two strengths the clear focus and an accessible style and is now fully up-to-date again on current developments in the field. -- Christian Mair, Universität Freiburg
List of Figures
List of Tables
To Readers
List of Abbreviations
1. Corpus Linguistics
2. Counting, Calculating and Annotating
3. Looking for Lexis
4. Checking Collocations
5. Finding Phrases
6. Metaphor and Metonymy
7. Grammar
8. Gender Issues
9. Language Change
10. Corpus Linguistics in Cyberspace
References
Index
Hans Lindquist is Emeritus Professor in English at Malmö University. Magnus Levin is Associate Professor in English at Linnaeus University
