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Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use.The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.

Children's fiction reflects social values and stereotypes, and it shapes what children learn about the world. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective on children's fiction and childhood, this book offers a fresh insight into the key issues in fiction for children, such as gender, social stereotypes, embodied and spatial experience, and emotions. Connecting classic children's texts such as Alice in Wonderland with contemporary fiction including Harry Potter, the book innovatively brings together perspectives from corpus linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and human geography. Chapter authors also include a novelist and a creative practitioner. Divided into two parts - Experiencing Texts, and Fiction and the Real World - the book highlights the important link between fictional stories and real life, and explores a range of approaches to experiencing texts, including a cross-linguistic view through translation and corpus linguistic methods for the study of literary texts. The materiality of texts is also investigated, including the spaces they take up in libraries, their cultural history moulded through performances, and the different reading environments that shape childhood, such as fashion and urban spaces. Connecting academic research with texts of cultural currency, the book casts light on the role of literature in how children construct the world around them.

Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right. This book includes coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions. It illustrates the theoretical arguments.

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents a corpus-based account of evaluation: one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.

An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English.

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. It addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses. It is suitable for academics and postgraduate students.

This is the first published edition of Sinclair, Jones and Daley's research on collocation, completed in 1970. The original was arguably the first report on research carried out on an electronically held corpus, and it sparked interest in collocation amongst researchers. J.R.

Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

Presents an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity, by bringing a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question: Which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?

Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, this book focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community.

Offers an overview of research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning. This book focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. It also focuses on various corpus-based tools for LSP learning. It illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data.

English is a global language which has spread historically through imperialism and more recently through communication networks throughout the world. This research monograph examines English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa, and is based primarily on an extensive spoken corpus of Xhosa English.

Examines English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa, and is based on a spoken corpus of Xhosa English. This book outlines how the corpus of spoken Xhosa English was designed and compiled, and discusses the criteria relating to informants, the use of spoken rather than written data, and the codes and transcription conventions.