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Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics
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 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.
712 pages, Paperback
First published March 19, 2010
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September 26, 2023
It is finished.
And there was much rejoicing.
I think this is the first time in my life that it has taken me six years to finish a book. Granted, it's massive, and not particularly enthralling, plus I didn't have access to it for 3 years while it was stuck in Japan and I was stuck in the US, but still, that just means it took 3 years to finish the thing.
Honestly, I didn't need to read the whole thing. It's a book that covers every aspect of corpus linguistics from how to build a corpus to how to use a corpus to develop language tests. I am not developing language tests, so I didn't need those chapters. Then again, some of the chapters, like the ones on forensic linguistics, made me want to quit my job and go pursue a career in that. If I had known 15 years ago that I could use my language skills to fight crime I would never have become a teacher, alas, I did not know.
I did however steal 5 or six books from the bibliography of those particular chapters, just so that I can go get some thrills from reading about how people's guilt has been proven through their personal idiolect. I am quivering with excitement about getting to read those...eventually.
Anyway, good book, quite useful if you are planning on doing any research in the corpus world. Some of the chapters were better than the others. It was amazing how some chapters managed to say absolutely nothing, while others were chock full of information and details. Some were incredibly boring and were a struggle to get through, but that was probably more a feature of how they weren't related to what I am working on. I am still glad I read the whole thing, though, beause occasionally I came upon the most perfectest of quotes in the most randomest of places.
And there was much rejoicing.
I think this is the first time in my life that it has taken me six years to finish a book. Granted, it's massive, and not particularly enthralling, plus I didn't have access to it for 3 years while it was stuck in Japan and I was stuck in the US, but still, that just means it took 3 years to finish the thing.
Honestly, I didn't need to read the whole thing. It's a book that covers every aspect of corpus linguistics from how to build a corpus to how to use a corpus to develop language tests. I am not developing language tests, so I didn't need those chapters. Then again, some of the chapters, like the ones on forensic linguistics, made me want to quit my job and go pursue a career in that. If I had known 15 years ago that I could use my language skills to fight crime I would never have become a teacher, alas, I did not know.
I did however steal 5 or six books from the bibliography of those particular chapters, just so that I can go get some thrills from reading about how people's guilt has been proven through their personal idiolect. I am quivering with excitement about getting to read those...eventually.
Anyway, good book, quite useful if you are planning on doing any research in the corpus world. Some of the chapters were better than the others. It was amazing how some chapters managed to say absolutely nothing, while others were chock full of information and details. Some were incredibly boring and were a struggle to get through, but that was probably more a feature of how they weren't related to what I am working on. I am still glad I read the whole thing, though, beause occasionally I came upon the most perfectest of quotes in the most randomest of places.
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