Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
About the Book Series
Corpus based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. The series aims to reflect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to provide a forum for debate and detailed discussion of the various ways of building, exploiting, and theorizing about the use of corpora in language studies.
Editorial Board:
- Laurence Anthony
- Monika Bednarek
- Tony Berber Sardinha
- Vaclav Brezina
- Isobelle Clarke
- Marianne Hundt
- Kaibao Hu
- Kris Kyle
- Michaela Mahlberg
- Gerlinde Mautner
- Anne O’Keeffe
- Ute Römer
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Yingyu Li
Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014
1st Edition
Edited
By Vaclav Brezina, Robbie Love, Karin Aijmer
June 30, 2020
Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short ...
Multilayer Corpus Studies
1st Edition
By Amir Zeldes
June 30, 2020
This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how the interplay of these concurrent analyses ...
TESOL Student Teacher Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Online and Face-to-Face Interactions
1st Edition
By Elaine Riordan
June 30, 2020
This book explores the use of online and face-to-face interactions in language teacher education (LTE) by assessing the formation and practices of a community of practice (CoP), and evaluating the roles discussions between student teachers and a peer tutor can play in terms of identity formation, ...
The Language of Hate: A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language
1st Edition
By Andrew Brindle
August 23, 2018
In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online. The website from which Brindle’s corpus is drawn...
Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Baker, Jesse Egbert
August 23, 2018
Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics through a series of parallel empirical studies that use a single corpus dataset to answer the same ...
Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama
1st Edition
By David L. Hoover, Jonathan Culpeper, Kieran O'Halloran
July 27, 2016
Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction...
Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective
1st Edition
By Steven Jones
January 20, 2016
Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon.This book demonstrates how traditional linguistic...
Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction
1st Edition
By Michaela Mahlberg
May 21, 2015
This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens’s novels, the book proposes a way into the ...
Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal
1st Edition
By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter
May 21, 2015
In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in ...
The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Spoken and Written Modes
1st Edition
By Fiona Farr
February 27, 2015
In this book, Farr examines the spoken and written language of post-observation teaching-practice feedback on teacher education programs. To do so, she draws upon theories from discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and pragmatics to frame the analysis of feedback meetings and written tutor ...
Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography
1st Edition
By Siepmann Dirk
February 05, 2015
This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion ...
Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study
1st Edition
By Sebastian Hoffmann
February 05, 2015
What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English ...