Corpus Linguistics
Investigating Language Structure and Use
$116.63
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
23 April 1998
Summary
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and difference…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521499576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521499577 |
| Author: | Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 1998 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics |
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Critics Review
“This book could be used as part of the curriculum for an introductory corpus linguistics class, especially for students with a humanities background.” Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Computational Linguistics
About The Author
Douglas Biber
Douglas Biber is Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He has worked in Kenya and Somalia, and has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Uppsala, University of Helsinki, University of Zurich, the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His previous books include Variation across Speech and Writing, Dimensions of Register Variation, Corpus Linguistics, The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, and Discourse on the Move.
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