The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Routledge (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780203856949 |
| Open Library | OL16627091W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2010 - 2015 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 10 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics is edited by Anne O'Keeffe (University of Limerick, Ireland) and Michael McCarthy (University of Nottingham, UK and Pennsylvania State University, USA). The main authors aim at providing a comprehensive and timely overview of studies on Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (cf. previous collected works by Facchinetti, 2007 and McCarthy & Sampson, 2004). In recent years, especially thanks to the development of technologies for the analysis of large bodies of texts, this field has proved to be very dynamic and with a broad range of application fields, such as computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics, language pedagogy and translation studies (Biber, Conrad, & Reppen, 1998). The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics includes forty-five contributions (each of them enriched by suggested readings and an updated bibliographies) by experts coming from the key-areas of the discipline. The chapters are organized in eight sections. In the first section, the editors provide an introduction to corpora from an historical perspective and a theoretical overview of the evolution of corpus linguistics. In the second section, Building and designing a corpus: what are the key considerations?, Reppen introduces the basic questions underlying the construction of corpora, such as problems related to the corpus size, how to collect texts, and how much mark-up is needed. Adolphs and Knight discuss the basics of developing a spoken corpus and the strategies for analysing and transcribing spoken data. In the following chapter, Nelson introduces the problem of building a written corpus and analyses the required steps: planning,