Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium [Paperback]

Rita C Simpson-Vlach (Editor), John M. Swales (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0472067621 | ISBN-13: 978-0472067626 | Publication Date: May 29, 2001

The first symposium in North America to address corpus linguistics was sponsored by the University of Michigan's English Language Institute in 1999. Corpus Linguistics in North America is a collection of selected and revised papers from this conference. The papers address the "states of art" in corpus linguistics in North America by focusing on work that is descriptive of languages, often with implications for pedagogy and materials development.
Corpus Linguistics in North America is divided into two parts. Part 1 examines corpus development and tools for accessing existing corpus resources, and Part 2 looks at 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.
This important milestone in the development of corpus linguistics in North America will be of interest to all students of applied linguistics and teachers of languages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL (May 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0472067621
• ISBN-13: 978-0472067626
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am John Swales, now officially retired as a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was also Director of the English Language Institute for many years. I have written quite a lot of books, the first being "Writing Scientific English" in 1971 and the last "Incidents in an Educational Life" in 2009. Although retired, I keep professionally active and go to my office in the university several times a week. I am currently working on two new small advanced EAP textbooks with my regular co-author, Christine Feak. I still travel quite often to give talks and workshops about my main fields such as genre analysis and English academic discourse; for example, in 2009, I went to Brazil, China and Argentina on such ventures. My main hobbies are bird-watching and butterfly-watching; indeed, along with three others, I am currently working on a second edition of "The Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan." My main publishers are the University of Michigan Press and Cambridge University Press.