ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent years it has seen an ever-widening application in a variety of fields: computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies.
Bringing together experts in the key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six themes which take the reader through building and designing a corpus to using a corpus to study literature and translation.
A comprehensive introduction covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. Structured around five headings for ease of reference, each contribution includes further reading sections with three to five key texts highlighted and annotated to facilitate further exploration of the topics. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics is the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Section I Introduction
chapter |11 pages
Historical perspective: What are corpora and how have they evolved?
chapter |15 pages
Theoretical overview of the evolution of corpus linguistics
part |2 pages
Section II Building and designing a corpus: What are the key considerations?
chapter |7 pages
Building a corpus: What are the key considerations?
chapter |15 pages
Building a spoken corpus: What are the basics?
chapter |13 pages
Building a written corpus: What are the basics?
chapter |14 pages
Building small specialised corpora
chapter |13 pages
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language
chapter |12 pages
Building a specialised audio-visual corpus
part |2 pages
Section III Analysing a corpus: What are the basics?
chapter |15 pages
What corpora are available?
chapter |14 pages
What are the basics of analysing a corpus?
chapter |16 pages
What can corpus software do?
chapter |15 pages
How can a corpus be used to explore patterns?
chapter |17 pages
What are concordances and how are they used?
chapter |11 pages
What can corpus software reveal about language development?
part |2 pages
Section IV Using a corpus for language research: What can a corpus tell us about language?
chapter |15 pages
What can a corpus tell us about lexis?
chapter |15 pages
What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units?
chapter |14 pages
What can a corpus tell us about grammar?
chapter |14 pages
What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres?
chapter |15 pages
What can a corpus tell us about specialist genres?
chapter |18 pages
What can a corpus tell us about discourse?
chapter |14 pages
What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics?
chapter |15 pages
What can a corpus tell us about creativity?
part |2 pages
Section V Using a corpus for language pedagogy and methodology
chapter |14 pages
What can a corpus tell us about language teaching?
chapter |14 pages
What is data-driven learning?
chapter |12 pages
How can data-driven learning be used in language teaching?
part |2 pages
Section VI Designing corpus-based materials for the language classroom
chapter |14 pages
What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials?
chapter |12 pages
What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials
chapter |15 pages
Corpus-informed course book design Jeanne McCarten
chapter |16 pages
Using corpora to write dictionaries
chapter |14 pages
Using corpora for writing instruction
chapter |13 pages
What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes?
chapter |14 pages
How can teachers use a corpus for their own research?
part |2 pages
Section VII Using corpora to study literature and translation
chapter |14 pages
What are parallel and comparable corpora and how can we use them?
chapter |15 pages
Using corpora in translation
chapter |15 pages
How can corpora be used to explore the language of poetry and drama?
chapter |14 pages
How can corpora be used to explore literary speech representation?
part |2 pages
Section VIII Applying corpus linguistics to other areas of research