This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.
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"This book could be used as part of the curriculum for an introductory corpus linguistics class, especially for students with a humanities background." Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Computational Linguistics
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This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.
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Lexicography is concerned with the meaning and use of words. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strong association patterns, right collocates, extraposed constructions, concordancing packages, collocate pair, diachronic corpus, concordancing software, grammatical associations, valency patterns, mutual information score, common collocates, medical prose, methodology box, concordancing program, concordance listings, corpus design, individual linguistic features, spoken corpus, lexical associations, private verbs, academic prose, historical corpora, medical research articles, stylistic investigations, tagged corpora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Lexicography is concerned with the meaning and use of words. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strong association patterns, right collocates, extraposed constructions, concordancing packages, collocate pair, diachronic corpus, concordancing software, grammatical associations, valency patterns, mutual information score, common collocates, medical prose, methodology box, concordancing program, concordance listings, corpus design, individual linguistic features, spoken corpus, lexical associations, private verbs, academic prose, historical corpora, medical research articles, stylistic investigations, tagged corpora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Longman-Lancaster Corpus, Helsinki Corpus, Arizona Corpus of Elementary Student Writing, Conversation Academic, London-Lund Corpus, Thortec International Inc, English Dimension, Atrb File, British National Corpus, Fiction Speech, Non-narrative Figure, Wells Fargo Bank New!
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- Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) by Terence Odlin in Back Matter
- Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson on page 224
- Radical Pragmatics by Peter Cole in Back Matter
- Language and Society (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) by William Downes in Front Matter
- Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery on page 241
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- An Introduction to Applied Linguistics by Norbert Schmitt on page 108, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora by Lynne Bowker on page 21, and page 234
- The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology (PALA Papers 1) by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard on page 208, and Back Matter
- Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora by Lynne Bowker on page 21, and Back Matter
- Modality in Contemporary English (Topics in English Linguistics, 44) by Roberta Facchinetti on page 239, and page 265
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