Books in the Research in Corpus and Discourse S. series

Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right. This book includes coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions. It illustrates the theoretical arguments.

This is the first published edition of Sinclair, Jones and Daley's research on collocation, completed in 1970. The original was arguably the first report on research carried out on an electronically held corpus, and it sparked interest in collocation amongst researchers. J.R.

Contains papers which focus on meaning, studied not only in monolingual environments, but also contrastively in multilingual contexts.

Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

Presents cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media. The authors have compiled a corpus of gender terms from online thesauruses to show how new technologies interact with gender categorizations in different languages, and how these are related to their respective culture and society.

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents a corpus-based account of evaluation: one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.

Reflects the influence of corpus linguistics in areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis, and language teaching. This book is divided into two sections, the first on monolingual corpora and the second addressing multilingual corpora. It is of interest to academics researching the applications of corpus linguistics.

Focuses on the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational tools. This analysis of using Spanish corpora is suitable for researchers in corpus linguistics or Spanish language.

Examines English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa, and is based on a spoken corpus of Xhosa English. This book outlines how the corpus of spoken Xhosa English was designed and compiled, and discusses the criteria relating to informants, the use of spoken rather than written data, and the codes and transcription conventions.