Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521499576)

This volume investigates the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide concrete descriptions of the research methods and advantages of corpus-based techniques. Ten methodology boxes provide concise explanations of the issues in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based studies and there is an appendix of resources for corpus-based investigation.

Author: Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen
ISBN-10: 0521499577
ISBN-13: 9780521499576
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/1998
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.10w x 0.78d