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
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 ...
Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
1st Edition
By Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao
July 03, 2014
This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared ...
The Linguistics of Political Argument: The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House
1st Edition
By Alan Partington
March 31, 2014
This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are ...
Public Discourses of Gay Men
1st Edition
By Paul Baker
December 11, 2013
Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an ...
Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War
1st Edition
Edited
By John Morley, Paul Bayley
May 31, 2013
This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic...
Semantic Prosody: A Critical Evaluation
1st Edition
By Dominic Stewart
May 23, 2013
Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its ...
Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language
1st Edition
By Susan Hunston
February 14, 2013
This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular ...
Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing
1st Edition
By Elena Semino, Mick Short
September 13, 2011
This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'.This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a ...
Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present
1st Edition
By Tony McEnery
September 17, 2009
Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at ...