Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

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1. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction

   By Michaela Mahlberg

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Corpus Stylistics

   Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

   By Elena Semino, Mick Short

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

   Phraseology and Evaluative Language

   By Susan Hunston

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback

   A Corpus-Based Investigation of Spoken and Written Modes

   By Fiona Farr

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

   By Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published June 7th 2010 by Routledge
6. Semantic Prosody

   A Critical Evaluation

   By Dominic Stewart

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published October 6th 2009 by Routledge
7. Swearing in English

   Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

   By Tony McEnery

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published September 17th 2009 by Routledge
8. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict

   Wording the War

   Edited by John Morley, Paul Bayley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge
9. Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions

   A Corpus-based Study

   By Sebastian Hoffmann

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   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...

   Published May 11th 2005 by Routledge
10. Public Discourses of Gay Men

    By Paul Baker

    Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

    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...

    Published May 5th 2005 by Routledge