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Corpus Linguistics

Applications for the Study of English

by Ana M. Hornero (Volume editor) María José Luzón (Volume editor) Silvia Murillo (Volume editor)
©2008 Conference proceedings 536 Pages
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 25

Summary

The aim of this volume is to present a state-of-the-art view on corpus studies. This collection of papers, presented at the XII Susanne Hübner Seminar in November 2003 at the University of Zaragoza, comprises both quantitative and qualitative analyses and studies on both written and oral corpora. Structured in seven sections, the book covers a wide range of approaches and methodologies and reflects current linguistic research. The papers have been written by scholars from a large number of universities, mainly from Europe, but also from the USA and Asia.
The volume offers contributions on diachronic studies, pragmatic analyses and cognitive linguistics, as well as on translation and English for Specific Purposes. The book includes several papers on corpus design and reports on research on oral corpora. At a more specific level, the papers analyse aspects such as politeness issues, dialectology, comparable corpora, discourse markers, the expression of evidentiality and writer stance, metaphor and metonymy, conditional sentences, evaluative adjectives, delexicalised verbs and nominalization.

Details

Pages
536
Publication Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039117260
Language
English
Keywords
Korpus (Linguistik) Translation Englisch Kongress Zaragoza (2003) Diachronic study Pragmatic analysis Cognitive linguistic English
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006, 2008. 536 pp., num. fig.

Biographical notes

Ana M. Hornero (Volume editor) María José Luzón (Volume editor) Silvia Murillo (Volume editor)

The Editors: Ana Maria Hornero is Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she teaches English Historical Linguistics and audiovisual translation. Maria José Luzón is Senior Lecturer in English for Specific Purposes at the University of Zaragoza. Her main interests include corpus-based research of academic and professional discourse. Silvia Murillo is Senior Lecturer in English for Specific Purposes at the University of Zaragoza. Her research fields include pragmatics and academic discourse, with special reference to the study of discourse markers.

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