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Corpus linguistics and the description of English
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- Book Synopsis
- The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, gender and language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations as well as including a section on creating your own corpus. Each chapter includes new study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading. Readers also benefit from an accompanying web-page with exercises and updated information about freely accessible corpora.
- About The Author
- Hans Lindquist is Emeritus Professor in English at Malmö University.
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- ISBN
- 9781399537384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (31 January 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 mm
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