Corpus Linguistics And The Description Of English (Edinburgh Textbooks On The English Language - Advanced)

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.

• | Author: Hans Lindquist|Magnus Levin
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 23, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Language Arts & Disciplines
• | ISBN-10: 1474421709
• | ISBN-13: 9781474421706