Corpora in Applied Linguistics By informing language teaching materials and dictionaries, Corpus linguistics has - in the past 10 years - had a huge impact on what aspects of language are taught in the classroom. This book discusses this impact and explores the techniques of investigating a corpus, as well as demonstrating the application of corpora in a wide variety of fields. Essential reading for anyone interested in corpus linguistics and its impact on applied linguistics By Susan Hunston - (CUP)   Order Now > Paperback Edition | Hardback Edition     Teaching and Language Corpora This is one of the first books on the use of corpora in teaching. It contains an extensive collection of articles by corpus linguists and practising teachers, and offers practical information on the sources of corpora, and ways of implementing corpora in the langauge classroom. The book will appeal to language teachers in higher secondary and tertiary education and applied linguistics specialists who have an interest in learner-centred approaches. By Anne Wichmann, Steven Fligelstone, Gerry Knowles, Anthony Mcenery - (Longman)   Order Now > Book       Using Corpora for Language Research This highly accessible book seeks to encourage the use of the corpus approach in many areas of language research and teaching. It clearly demonstrates that the corpus approach can be applied to a wide range of areas of language study including translation, stylistics, foreign language teaching and language testing. By Jenny Thomas, Mick Short - (Longman)   Order Now > Book     Corpus Linguistics in North America - Selections from the 1999 Symposium A collection of selected and revised papers from the first ever Corpus Linguistics conference in North America. Part 1 looks at corpus development and tools for accessing existing corpus resources. Part 2 considers current linguistic analyses using corpora. Corpus linguists from all over the world have contributed to this volume. A glossary of corpus building and tools is included. Essential reading for anyone interested in this area of linguistics. By Rita C. Simpson and John M. Swales, Editors - (University of Michigan Press)   Order Now > Paperback Edition | Hardback Edition       Learner English on Computer A unique book which is intended to provide linguists, students of linguistics and modern languages, and ELT professionals with a highly accessible and comprehensive introduction to the rapidly-expanding field of corpus-based research into learner language. The book is divided into 3 main sections: Part1 gives an overview of the field, explaining links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT. It also reviews the software tools currently available for analysing learner language and contains useful examples of how they can be used. Part 2 presents 8 case studies in which computer learner corpora are analysed for various lexical, discourse and grammatical features. The articles contain a wide range of methodologies with broad general application. Part 3 examines how Computer Learner Corpus (CLC) based studies can help improve pedagogical tools: EFL grammars, dictionaries, writing textbooks and electronic tools. Implications for classroom methodology are also discussed. An excellent resource. By Sylviane Granger - (Longman)   Order Now > Book       Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics) Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in this rapidly changing field, making this book the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook available. It gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them. By Tony McEnery, Andrew Wilson - (Edinburgh Univ Pr)   Order Now > Book       Corpus Annotation Provides an up-to-date picture of this new area of research, and will provide essential reading for newcomers to the field as well as those already involved in corpus annotation. The first part of the book introduces the different levels and techniques of corpus annotation. The second part of the book deals with software developments, applications, and the development of standards for the evaluation of corpus annotation. The book's primary focus is on the work of the UCREL (University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language) team at Lancaster University, which has been at the forefront of developments in the field of corpus annotation since its beginnings in the 1970s. By Roger Garside, Geoffrey Leech, Tony Mcenery - (Longman)   Order Now > Book       Pattern Grammar. A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) Describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of ‘Phraseology’ and of ‘Language Patterning’ arising from work on large corpora. Covers the research that led to Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patters series (1996,1998) and examines the practical and theoretical implications of the research. By Susan Hunston, Gill Francis - (John Benjamins Pub Co)   Order Now > Book       An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics Covers all aspects of the field of Corpus Linguistics, from the different types of electronic corpora available today, to instructions on how to design and compile a corpus. The author surveys the emergence of corpora for use in linguistic research, and focuses in particular on the exponential growth of computer corpora in the electronic age. By Graeme D. Kennedy - (Longman)   Order Now > Book       Words and Phrases : Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics (Language in Society) 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. By Michael Stubbs - (Blackwell Publishers)   Order Now > Book     Back to Bookstore More
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