Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech.
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies, providing a data-driven method for the ..
Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical overview of how we can use corpus linguistics to analyse grammar. It examines the ..
Corpus Linguistics for ELT provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. This book introduces the reader to ELT-related corpu..
Phraseology, as explored in corpus linguistics, is important to the study of evaluative language. Corpus techniques reveal this phraseology and so ass..
Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructe..
Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexic..
This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and US institutions on the war in Iraq...
This volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based on dichotomy and instead advocates for the notion that metaphoricity is c..
This book represents a new direction at the interface between the fields of stylistics and corpus linguistics, namely the use of a corpus methodology ..
Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and of a register ..
This book describes Corpus Linguistics & its applications to language teaching & learning for teachers & practitioners in TESOL & ESL/EFL. Key topics ..
This book provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. It explains how corpus tools can be applied to explore ..