The contributions to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide range of areas in linguistics. Corpora can be used as models of human linguistic experience, and the contributors demonstrate that there is ample scope for integrating such models into the descriptions of discourse, grammar, and meaning. Continually improving technological development facilitates the design of larger and more comprehensive corpora documenting language use in a multitude of genres, styles and modes, even starting to include visual aspects. Software to investigate these data also becomes increasingly powerful and more refined. The sixteen original articles in this volume cover substantial ground on both the theoretical as well as applied levels. Having such data and software resources at their disposal, the contributing researchers rethink the long discussed interplay between language system and use from various angles, considering socio-cultural and cognitive involvement and representation, with synchronic as well as diachronic perspectives in view. These theories and quantitative / qualitative methods are applied to a range of topics from language acquisition and teaching to literature and politics. All of the authors in this volume reveal the profound and leading impact that Mike Stubbs' work has continued to contribute to the field of corpus-based description of language structure, use and function.
Author(s): Andrea Gerbig, Oliver Mason
Publisher: Rodopi
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 336
Language, People, Numbers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Contributing Authors......Page 13
A Select Bibliography......Page 16
Michael Stubbs: a theoretician of applied linguistics......Page 22
Borrowed ideas......Page 28
How 'systemic' is a large corpus of English?......Page 50
Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics......Page 68
Developing language education policy in Europe – and searching for theory......Page 92
The semiotic patterning of Cædmon's Hymn as a 'hypersign'......Page 106
Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics 'with critical notes'......Page 136
Travelogues in time and space: a diachronic and intercultural genre study......Page 164
An extended view of extended lexical units: tracking development and use......Page 184
I don't know – differences in patterns of collocation and semantic prosody in phrases of different lengths......Page 206
Stubbing your toe against a hard mass of facts: corpus data and the phraseology of STUB and TOE......Page 224
Stringing together a sentence: linearity and the lexis-syntax interface......Page 238
'Sailing the islands or watching from the dock': the treacherous simplicity of a metaphor. How we handle 'new (electronic) hypertext' versus 'old (printed) text'......Page 256
Linking the verbal and visual: new directions for corpus linguistics......Page 282
The novel features of text. Corpus analysis and stylistics......Page 300
Hocus pocus or God's truth: the dual identity of Michael Stubbs......Page 312
