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. It contains copious authentic examples for millions of words
of corpus data and from many types of naturally occurring texts:
school books, courtroom language, speeches by politicians and other
public figures, sexist language.
Lexical collocations, modality, transitivity, causativity and
agency are analyzed to provide many clear examples of how such
patterns convey attitudes, presuppositions and points of view. A
major chapter demonstrates methods of analyzing key words in
British culture. Stubbs gives his work a systematic theoretical
basis in an authoritative explanation of the principles of British
text analysis from the 1930s to the 1990s, especially in work by J.
R. Firth, M. A. K. Halliday and J. McH. Sinclair. This tradition of
social linguistics shows how important it is to base linguistic
descriptions on adequate attested data.
The book is designed to introduce students to basic methods of
corpus analysis, semantics and pragmatics, language and ideology,
critical linguistics and stylistics. Some knowledge of introductory
linguistics is assumed: the book is suitable from second year
courses upwards. The main audience will be undergraduate and
postgraduate students in courses on corpus linguistics, text and
discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics, language and
ideology, critical linguistics, and stylistics.
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