Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora

Download or read book Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora brings new insights into the monolingual ideal that has permeated most branches of linguistics, also corpus linguistics, for a long time. The volume brings together scholars in the many fields of English corpus linguistics from World Englishes, learner corpora and English as a Lingua Franca to the history of English. The approaches include perspectives of corpus compilation, annotation and use.