Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora

by Lynne Bowker, Jennifer Pearson

Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software. Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.

Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 8, 2002

Reviews

[Mohammad Aboomar · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent resource for students getting to know what a corpus is and how to work with one. The focus on LSP is relatively less, but it's still useful to have an idea about LSP as opposed to LGP. The tools and their capabilities are inevitably outdated, but it's still a good entry into the world of manipulating and research language using corpora. The main focus of the discussion is on European languages.