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Corpus Linguistics

Four-Volume Set
Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University
Randi Reppen Northern Arizona University
© 2012   1592 pages   SAGE Publications Ltd   
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Hardcover ISBN: 9780857029645 £600.00
Other Titles in: Linguistics  |  Speech Communication
VOLUME ONE: LEXICAL STUDIES
PART ONE: WORD USE
'It's Just Really Messy' Stephanie Lindemann and Anne Mauranen
The Occurrence and Function of Just in a Corpus of Academic Speech
PART TWO: COLLOCATIONS AND SEMANTIC PROSODY
The Discourse Function of Collocation in Research Article Introductions Christopher Gledhill
Verbs Observed Susan Hunston and Francis Gill
A Corpus-Driven Pedagogic Grammar
A Few Frequently Asked Questions about Semantic - or Evaluative - Prosody John Morley and Alan Partington
The Use of Collocations by Advanced Learners of English and Some Implications for Teaching Nadja Nesselhauf
Utterly Content in Each Other's Company Alan Partington
Semantic Prosody and Semantic Preference
Lexical Repulsion between Sense-Related Pairs Antoinette Renouf and Jayeeta Banerjee
Collocations and Semantic Profiles Michael Stubbs
On the Cause of the Trouble with Quantitative Methods
PART THREE: PHRASEOLOGY
If You Look at... Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad and Viviana Cortes
Lexical Bundles in University Teaching and Textbooks
Uncovering the Extent of the Phraseological Tendancy Winnie Cheng et al
Towards a Systematic Analysis of Concgrams
Clusters, Key Clusters and Local Textual Functions in Dickens Michaela Mahlberg
Chunking in ELF Anna Mauranen
Expressions for Managing Interaction
Lexical Bundles and Discourse Signalling in Academic Lectures Hilary Nesi and Helen Basturkmen
Establishing the Phraseological Profile of a Text Type Ute Romer
The Construction of Meaning in Academic Book Reviews
A Corpus-Based Study of Idioms in Academic Speech Rita Simpson and Dushyanthi Mendis
An Academic Formulas List Rita Simpson and Nick Ellis
New Methods in Phraseological Research
VOLUME TWO: GRAMMAR
PART ONE: ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL FEATURES AND GRAMMATICAL VARIATION
Argument of Evidence? Disciplinary Variation in the Noun That Pattern Maggie Charles
Testing the Sub-Test Stefan Gries
An Analysis of English -ic and -ical Adjectives
Hooking the Reader Ken Hylan and Polly Tse
A Corpus Study of Evaluative That in Abstracts
There's Two Ways to Say It Brian Riordan
Modelling Non-Prestige There's
Understanding Non-Restrictive Which Clauses in Spoken English, Which Is Not an Easy Thing Hongyin Tao and Michael McCarthy
PART TWO: HISTORICAL STUDIES OF GRAMMATICAL VARIATION
Recent Changes in the Function and Frequency of Standard English Genitive Constructions Lars Hinrichs and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
A Multivariate Analysis of Tagged Corpora
Three Changing Patterns of Verb Complementation in Late Modern English Christian Mair
A Real-Time Study Based on Matching Text Corpora
PART THREE: GRAMMAR AND PRAGMATICS
Politeness and Modal Meaning in the Construction of Humiliative Discourse in an Early 18th Century Network of Patron-Client Relationships Susan Fitzmaurice
Diachronic Speech Act Analysis Andreas Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Insults from Flyting to Flaming
Grammar of Spoken English Geoffrey Leech
New Outcomes of Corpus-Oriented Research
Language Users as Creatures of Habit Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Persistence in Spoken English
PART FOUR: LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL STUDIES
Lexical-Grammatical Patterns in Spoken English Nadja Nesselhauf and Ute Romer
The Case of the Progressive with Future Time Reference
Collostructions Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Gries
Investigating the Interaction between Words and Constructions
VOLUME THREE: VARIETIES
PART ONE: DESCRIPTIONS OF A REGISTER
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975 Dwight Atkinson
A Socio-Historical Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Variation in the Discourse of Outsourced Call Centers Eric Friginal
Rhetorical Structure of Biochemistry Research Articles Budsaba Kanoksilapatham
Conventions of Professional Writing Irma Taavitsainen and Paivi Pahta
The Medical Case Report in an Historical Perspective
Using Computerized Corpus Analysis to Investigate the Text Linguistic Discourse Moves of a Genre Thomas Upton and Ulla Connor
English for Specific Purposes
PART TWO: REGISTER VARIATION
Speaking and Writing in the University Douglas Biber et al
A Multidimensional Comparison
Spoken and Written Register Variation in Spanish Douglas Biber et al
A Multidimensional Analysis
'Agile' and 'Uptight' Genres Marianna Hundt and Christian Mair
The Corpus-Based Approach to Language Change in Progress
PART THREE : DIALECT VARIATION
Gender Differences in the Evolution of Standard English Terttu Nevalainen
Frequency and Variation in the Community Grammar Sali Tagliamonte and Alexandra Darcy
Tracking a New Change through the Generations
Corpus-Based Dialectometry Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
A Methodological Sketch
PART FOUR: NATIONAL VARIETIES AND WORLD ENGLISHES
The Committee Has/Have Decided... on Concord Patterns with Collective Nouns in Inner- and Outer- Circle Varieties of English Marianna Hundt
Describing Verb-Complementational Profiles of New Englishes Joybrato Mukherjee and Sebastian Hoffmann
A Pilot Study of Indian English
Cultural Discourse in the Corpus of East African English and beyond Josef Schmeid
Possibilities and Problems of Lexical and Collocation Research in a One Million Corpus
Tag Questions in British and American English Gunnel Tottie and Sebastian Hoffmann
VOLUME FOUR: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
PART ONE: CORPUS DESIGN
Representativeness in Corpus Design Douglas Biber
Data in Historical Pragmatics Jonathon Culpeper and Merja Kyto
Spoken Interaction (Re-)Cast as Writing
The Linguistic Study of Early Modern English Speech-Related Texts Merja Kyto and Terry Walker
How 'Bad' Can 'Bad' Data Be?
PART TWO: ANALYTICAL METHODS
Keyness Jonathon Culpeper
Words, Parts-of-Speech and Semantic Categories in the Character-Talk of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Dispersions and Adjusted Frequencies in Corpora Stefan Gries
Comparing Corpora Adam Kilgarriff
From Key Words to Semantic Domains Paul Rayson
PART THREE: CORPUS INVESTIGATIONS FOR APPLIED PURPOSES
Lexical Coverage of Spoken Discourse Svenja Adolphs and Norbert Schmitt
The Grammatical and Lexical Patterning of MAKE in Native and Non-Native Student Writing Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
What Does Frequency Have to Do with Grammar Teaching? Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen
A New Academic World List Averil Coxhead
Connector Usage in the English Essay-Writing of Native and Non-Native EFL Speakers of English Sylviane Granger and Stephanie Tyson
PART FOUR: PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Is There Any Measurable Learning from Hands-on Concordancing? Tom Cobb
Using Corpus Tools to Highlight Academic Vocabulary in Sustained Content Language Teaching Kate Donley and Randi Reppen
Learner Corpora Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot
The Missing Link in EAP Pedagogy
Using Language Corpora in Initial Teacher Education Anne O'Keeffe and Fiona Farr
Pedagogic Issues and Practical Applications

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