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Corpus Linguistics at Work

By Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2001
ISBN
9027222762, 9789027222763
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15745732 bytes)
Series
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Pages
236\237
Time added
2015-10-10 12:16:22
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прикладная лингвис

Description

The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work. Thus, starting from the definition of what is a corpus and why reading a corpus calls for a different methodology from reading a text, the underlying assumptions behind corpus work are discussed. The two main approaches to corpus work are discussed as the “corpus-based” and the “corpus-driven” approach and the theoretical positions underlying them explored in detail. The book adopts and exemplifies the parameters of the corpus-driven approach and posits a new unit of linguistic description defined systematically in the light of corpus evidence. The applications where the corpus-driven approach is exemplified are language teaching and contrastive linguistics. Alternating between practical examples and theoretical evaluation, the reader is led step-by-step to a detailed understanding of the issues involved in corpus work and, at the same time, tempted to explore for himself some of the major applications where a corpus-driven methodology can reveal unprecedented insights into linguistic patterning.

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