Crossing boundaries through corpora
Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics. S. Buschfeld, P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Weilinghoff, & L. Westermayer (eds)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18094697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zeyuan Jiang (0009-0009-2117-6930, Qingdao University), Jiahao Chen (0000-0001-5214-2957, Qingdao University), Zhanting Bu (Qingdao University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1338-1341 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-7671 • E-ISSN: 2055-768X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/llc/fqaf079 |
| OpenAlex | W4413770360 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Driven by breakthroughs in computational capabilities and the expansion of data-intensive paradigms, corpus-based methodologies are experiencing both disciplinary diffusion and substantial innovation in research design and application. However, new perspectives inevitably bring new questions, given the empirical turn of contemporary linguistic inquiry (cf Chomsky 1956), how can we integrate theory and corpora, and how do we bridge the gap between technology and practice? This new volume, Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, edited by Sarah Buschfeld et al., is a timely contribution that captures these reflections. It accurately grasps the current trends in corpus research, presenting the most cutting-edge theoretical explorations and practical innovations in contemporary corpus linguistics. The volume comprises nine studies by an impressive array of research teams, originating from the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English conferences held in Dortmund in the summer of 2021 and Cambridge in 2022. In the first chapter, the editors explicitly propose the core concept of ‘crossing boundaries’, which they interpret as four themes of boundary breaking: ‘Integrated approaches’ (p.7), ‘Change over time’ (p.99), ‘New approaches’ (p.153), and ‘Accessibility’ (p.247). This arrangement not only provides a clear organizational logic for the book but, more importantly, it accurately captures the internal dynamics and external needs of the development of contemporary corpus linguistics.
Corpus linguistics · Linguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |