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This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus
linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of
the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the
past decade. Corpus linguistics investigates human language by
starting out from large collections of texts - spoken, written, or
recorded. These language corpora, which are now regularly available
in electronic form, are the basis for quantitative and qualitative
research on almost any question of linguistic interest. Many
techniques that are in use in corpus linguistics today are rooted
in the tradition of the late 18th and 19th century, when
linguistics began to make use of mathematical and empirical
methods. Modern corpus linguistics has used and developed these
methods in close connection with computer science and computational
linguistics. The handbook sketches the history of corpus
linguistics, shows its potential, discusses its problems, and
describes various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching
corpora as well as processing corpus data. It also reports case
studies that illustrate the wide range of linguistic research
questions addressed in corpus linguistics. The over 60 articles
included in the handbook are divided into five sections: (1) the
origins and history of corpus linguistics and surveys of its
relationship to central fields of linguistics (2) corpus
compilation (3) corpus types (4) preprocessing of corpora (5) the
use and exploitation of corpora. The final section gives an
overview of the results of corpus studies obtained in phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics,
historical linguistics, stylometry, dialectology, and discourse
analysis. It also reports on recent advances made in human and
machine translation, contrastive studies, computer-assisted
language learning, and automatic summarization. The contributors to
the volume are internationally known experts in their respective
fields. The handbook is intended for a wide audience ranging from
teachers, university students, and scholars to anyone interested in
the use of computers in linguistic analyses and applications.
This volume provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus
linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of
the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the
past decade. Corpus linguistics investigates human language by
starting out from large collections of texts - spoken, written, or
recorded. These language corpora, which are now regularly available
in electronic form, are the basis for quantitative and qualitative
research on almost any question of linguistic interest. Many
techniques that are in use in corpus linguistics today are rooted
in the tradition of the late 18th and 19th century, when
linguistics began to make use of mathematical and empirical
methods. Modern corpus linguistics has used and developed these
methods in close connection with computer science and computational
linguistics. The handbook sketches the history of corpus
linguistics, shows its potential, discusses its problems, and
describes various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching
corpora as well as processing corpus data. It also reports case
studies that illustrate the wide range of linguistic research
questions addressed in corpus linguistics. The over 60 articles
included in the handbook are divided into five sections: (1) the
origins and history of corpus linguistics and surveys of its
relationship to central fields of linguistics (2) corpus
compilation (3) corpus types (4) preprocessing of corpora (5) the
use and exploitation of corpora. The final section gives an
overview of the results of corpus studies obtained in phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics,
historical linguistics, stylometry, dialectology, and discourse
analysis. It also reports on recent advances made in human and
machine translation, contrastive studies, computer-assisted
language learning, and automatic summarization. The contributors to
the volume are internationally known experts in their respective
fields. The handbook is intended for a wide audience ranging from
teachers, university students, and scholars to anyone interested in
the use of computers in linguistic analyses and applications.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
The study of the recent history of English is crucial in making
connections between early and present day English. This volume
focuses on the nineteenth century, an important period of both
stability and change for the English language. Through ten detailed
case studies, it highlights the relationships between English, its
users, and nineteenth-century society, looking particularly at
gender differences and variation across genres. It also discusses
major structural aspects of nineteenth-century English, such as
nouns, verbs and adjectives, and Germanic vs. Romance vocabulary.
Although the nineteenth century is often viewed as a relatively
stable period in the development of the language, this volume shows
the 1800s to be a time of significant change, some of which
continued into the twentieth century. By making comparisons
possible with both earlier and later periods, it makes an important
contribution to our overall understanding of the history of the
English language.
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of
research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English
come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to
shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field.
Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address
the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological,
theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of
electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field
of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on
the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns
of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as
interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and
present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students
and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the
history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which
has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the
English language. This Handbook provides an account of
state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth
survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used
to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered
include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical
pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by
leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and
empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the
field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which
have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the
discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access
to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical
linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers
and students interested in hands-on research on the history of
English.
Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for
centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in
linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich
repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. The
contributions to the book discuss the grammatical, pragmatic,
rhetorical and stylistic functions of punctuation, such as encoding
emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic
indication. They also highlight the sensibility of punctuation to
genre and the speech-writing continuum, as well as the important
role punctuation plays for reader interpretation. They further
demonstrate how punctuation conventions change in time. The data is
drawn from English, with one investigation devoted to German.
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of
research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English
come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to
shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field.
Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address
the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological,
theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of
electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field
of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on
the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns
of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as
interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and
present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students
and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the
history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction;
however, the method, description and theory of traditional
historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly
and literary writings. Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560
1760, in this book Culpeper and Kyto offer a unique account of the
linguistic features in several speech-related written genres,
comprising trial proceedings, witness depositions, plays, fiction
and didactic works. The volume is the first to provide innovative
analyses of several neglected written genres, demonstrating how
they might be researched, and highlighting the theories which are
needed to underpin this research. Through this, the authors are
able to create a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction
in Early Modern English might have been like, providing an
alternative perspective to that often presented in traditional
historical accounts of English."
This volume of Studies in English Language focuses on the
nineteenth century, an important period of both stability and
change for the English language. Through ten detailed case studies,
it highlights the relationships between English, its users, and
nineteenth-century society, looking particularly at gender
differences and variation across genres. It also discusses major
structural aspects of nineteenth-century English, such as nouns,
verbs and adjectives, and Germanic vs. Romance vocabulary. Although
the nineteenth century is often viewed as a relatively stable
period in the development of the language, this volume shows the
1800s to be a time of significant change, some of which continued
into the twentieth century. By making comparisons possible with
both earlier and later periods, it makes an important contribution
to our overall understanding of the history of the English
language.
Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction;
however, the method, description and theory of traditional
historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly
and literary writings. Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560
1760, in this book Culpeper and Kyto offer a unique account of the
linguistic features in several speech-related written genres,
comprising trial proceedings, witness depositions, plays, fiction
and didactic works. The volume is the first to provide innovative
analyses of several neglected written genres, demonstrating how
they might be researched, and highlighting the theories which are
needed to underpin this research. Through this, the authors are
able to create a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction
in Early Modern English might have been like, providing an
alternative perspective to that often presented in traditional
historical accounts of English."
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