From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.
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1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data |
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PART 1 Evidence from "Big Data" |
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2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics |
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3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design |
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4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English |
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5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English |
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PART 2 Evidence from "Rich Data"? |
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6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data |
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7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist's Perspective |
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8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions |
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9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence |
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PART 3 Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? |
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10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modem England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor |
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11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English |
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Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb |
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12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets |
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13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics |
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14 Charting New Sources of ELF Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach |
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Carla Suhr, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at that university. She is a co-compiler of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing and has published on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.
Terttu Nevalainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is Professor of English Philology, the Director of the VARIENG Research Unit, and a co-compiler of the historical Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, with well over 100 related publications.
Irma Taavitsainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Professor Emerita of English Philology, Deputy Director of VARIENG, and a co-compiler of the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, has published extensively on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.
Contributors are: Lieselotte Anderwald, Helen Baker, David Brett, Mark Davies, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Turo Hiltunen, Mark Kaunisto, Hanna Kermes, Ashraf Khamis, Thomas Kohnen, Mikko Laitinen, Alexander Lakaw, Daniela Landert, Magnus Levin, Tony McEnery, Terttu Nevalainen, Antonio Pinna, Antionette Renouf, Juhani Rudanko, Tanja Rütten, Gerold Schneider, Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Elke Teich, Jukka Tyrkkö.
