1st Edition

Working with Specialized Language A Practical Guide to Using Corpora

By Lynne Bowker, Jennifer Pearson Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. The resources and techniques used to investigate general language cannot be easily adopted for specialized investigations. This book is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Setting the scene, 1. Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools, 2. Introducing LSP, PART II. Corpus design, compilation and processing, 3. Designing a special purpose corpus, 4. Compiling a special purpose corpus, 5. Markup and annotation, 6. Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation, 7. Introduction to basic corpus processing tools, PART III. Corpus-based applications in LSP, 8. Building useful glossaries, 9. Term extraction, 10. Using LSP corpora as a writing guide, 11. Using LSP corpora as a translation resource, 12. Other applications and future directions, Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

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Lynne Bowker, Jennifer Pearson