| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 219 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language - Advanced
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; To readers; Abbreviations; 1 Corpus linguistics; 2 Counting, calculating and annotating; 3 Looking for lexis; 4 Checking collocations and colligations; 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Corpora (Linguistics)
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Corpora (Linguistics) |
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Computational linguistics.
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Computational linguistics. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Lehrbuch.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lindquist, Hans. Corpus linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748626144 (DLC) 2009370721 (OCoLC)280543931 |
| ISBN |
9780748631407 (electronic book) |
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0748631402 (electronic book) |
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9780748626144 (hardback) |
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074862614X (hardback) |
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0748626158 (paperback) |
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9780748626151 (paperback) |
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