Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English

Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781474421713
ISBN-13 : 1474421717
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Book Synopsis Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English by : Hans Lindquist

Download or read book Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English written by Hans Lindquist and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this successful text 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 authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. A final chapter shows how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations and contains information on how to compile your own corpus. Each chapter includes study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading.


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