ENGLISH

Corpus Linguistics

By Tony McEnery , Andrew Wilson

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0748611657, 9780748611652
Open Library ID
OL22054394M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12934232 bytes)
Series
Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics
Edition
2nd
Pages
235\122
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прикладная лингвис

Description

I am a professor of linguistics, and was assigned to teach a general Corpus Linguistics course for the first time. This book was billed as a standard first textbook in the subject, suitable for uninitiated linguistics students. We have found that the book is chiefly an annotated bibliography of the field, and does not cover enough topics in sufficient depth to serve as a course textbook. I have had to supplement nearly every portion of the course with either additional readings or methodology that I provide on my own. The students find it dreadfully dry, it reads almost like a phone book, jumping lightly from one barely-treated topic to another without ever actually teaching a single thing. Unfortunately, the publisher refused my efforts to contact them to get myself an advance copy. Now I know why this happened---by letting me see the book in advance, they would likely have lost a bunch of sales.

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