1st Edition
Language Variation and Change Unlocking the Power of R and Python
1. Introduction to language variation and change 2. Lexical variation and change 3. Word class variation and change 4. Constructional variation and change 5. Stylistic variation and change 6. Sociolinguistic variation and change 7. Language variation, language universal, and isomorphism 8. Conclusion
Biography
Bin Shao is Professor at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University. His research interests include language variation and change, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, English lexicology, and digital humanities. He has published extensively in leading journals, including Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, English Language and Linguistics, Lingua and authored ten Chinese monographs and textbooks.
Yingying Cai is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University. Her interests include language variation and change and corpus linguistics. She has published in journals including Journal of English Linguistics and Linguistics Vanguard and leads a project funded by Ministry of Education of China.
