Annotation. Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts.
Audience
Scholarly & Professional Rodopi.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments; Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change; Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics; Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship; 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day.
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