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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

By Douglas Biber , Randi Reppen

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107037387, 9781107037380
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9473474 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Pages
639\642
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-09-06 22:52:41
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Description

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

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