This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how t...hese topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100-million-word British National Corpus. Indeed, the BNC and BNCweb have been described by Geoffrey Leech as an un-paralleled combination of facilities for finding out about the English language of the present day (Foreword). The book contains tasks and exercises, and is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and experienced corpus users alike.
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| ISBN |
9783631563151 |
| Released NZ |
20 Oct 2008 |
| Publisher |
Peter Lang |
| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback, New edition |
| Series |
English Corpus Linguistics (part: 6) |
| Availability |
In stock at supplier; delivery usually 20-30 working days due to covid19 delays
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Corpora Linguistics, English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing, English language - Research - Data processing, English language - Great Britain - Data processing |
| NBS Text |
Linguistics |
| ONIX Text |
Professional and scholarly |
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Author's Bio
The Authors: Sebastian Hoffmann is based at Lancaster University (UK), Stefan Evert at the University of Osnabruck (Germany), Nicholas Smith at the University of Salford (UK), David Lee at the City University of Hong Kong, and Ylva Berglund Prytz at the University of Oxford (UK). The authors have extensive experience of teaching and researching with language corpora, in particular the BNC.
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