Corpus Linguistics |
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| Editor:
| Biber, Douglas
Reppen, Randi |
| Series title: | SAGE Benchmarks in Language and Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85702-964-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Limited
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| Book Format: | Multiple-item retail product |
| List Price: | USD $1188.00 |
Book Description:
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Corpus linguistics is a research approach to investigate the patterns of language use empirically, based on analysis of large collections of natural texts. While corpus-based analysis has had relatively little influence on theoretical linguistics, it has revolutionized the study of language variation and use: what speakers and writers actually do with the lexical and grammatical resources of a language. Corpus-based research employs the research methods of quantitative and qualitative...
More DescriptionCorpus linguistics is a research approach to investigate the patterns of language use empirically, based on analysis of large collections of natural texts. While corpus-based analysis has had relatively little influence on theoretical linguistics, it has revolutionized the study of language variation and use: what speakers and writers actually do with the lexical and grammatical resources of a language. Corpus-based research employs the research methods of quantitative and qualitative social science to investigate language use patterns empirically.
This four-volume collection is organized around linguistic research questions that can be investigated from a corpus perspective and includes amongst others studies of individual words, comparisons of supposedly synonymous words, studies of grammatical variation, and sociolinguistic studies of dialects, registers, styles, and world varieties. Corpus-based analysis has also proven to be important for the study of historical change.