
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English – revised and updated. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female l...
A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English – revised and updated. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female l...