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Corpus linguistics and the description of English / Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474421713
  • 1474421717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 410.285 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1422
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro; Title page; Contents; Figures; Tables; To readers; Abbreviations; 1 Corpus linguistics; 2 Counting, calculating and annotating; 3 Looking for lexis; 4 Checking collocations; 5 Finding phrases; 6 Metaphor and metonymy; 7 Grammar; 8 Male and female; 9 Language change; 10 Corpus linguistics in cyberspace; References; Index
Summary: A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language chang.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 12, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English, this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language chang.

Intro; Title page; Contents; Figures; Tables; To readers; Abbreviations; 1 Corpus linguistics; 2 Counting, calculating and annotating; 3 Looking for lexis; 4 Checking collocations; 5 Finding phrases; 6 Metaphor and metonymy; 7 Grammar; 8 Male and female; 9 Language change; 10 Corpus linguistics in cyberspace; References; Index

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