This book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics - corpus analysis - and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use.
* The first introductory treatment of corpus linguistics * Author is a key figure in the development of critical discourse analysis
Author(s): Michael Stubbs
Series: Language in Society
Publisher: Blackwell
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Oxford
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures, Concordances and Tables.
Acknowledgements.
Data Conventions and Terminology.
Notes on Corpus Data and Software.
Part I: Concepts and History:.
1. Texts and Text Types.
2. British Traditions in Text Analysis: Firth, Halliday and Sinclair.
3. Institutional Linguistics: Firth, Hill and Giddens.
Part II: Text and Corpus Analysis:.
4. Baden-Powell: A Comparative Analysis of Two Short Texts.
5. Judging the Facts: An Analysis of One Text in its Institutional Context.
6. Human and Inhuman Geography: A Comparative Analysis of Two Long Texts and a Corpus.
7. Keywords, Collocations and Culture: The Analysis of Word Meanings across Corpora.
8. Towards a Modal Grammar of English: A Matter of Prolonged Fieldwork.
9. The Classic Questions.
Notes.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
