Advances in corpus linguistics : : papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23), Gotteborg, 22-26 May 2002 / / edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg.

• Author: International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora Göteborg, Sweden)
• TeilnehmendeR: Altenberg, Bengt,; Aijmer, Karin,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Computers 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 419 pages) :; illustrations.

This book provides an up-to-date survey of current issues and approaches in corpus linguistics in the form of twenty-two recent research articles. The articles cover a wide range of topics illustrating the diversity of research that is characteristic of corpus linguistics today. Central themes are the relationship between theory, intuition and corpus data and the role of corpora in linguistic research. The majority of the articles are empirical studies of specific aspects of English, ranging from lexis and grammar to discourse and pragmatics. Other areas explored are language variation, language change and development, language learning, cross-linguistic comparisons of English and other languages, and the development of linguistic software tools. The contributors to the volume include some of the leading figures in the field such as M.A.K. Halliday, John Sinclair, Geoffrey Leech and Michael Hoey. The theoretical and methodological issues addressed in the volume demonstrate clearly the steady advance of an expanding discipline inspired by an empirical, usage-based approach to the study of language. The volume is essential reading for researchers and students interested in the use of computer corpora in linguistic research.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg -- Introduction / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg -- The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory / M.A.K. Halliday -- Intuition and annotation – the discussion continues / John Sinclair -- Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory / Geoffrey Leech -- Corpus data in a usage-based cognitive grammar / Joybrato Mukherjee -- Putting ‘putting verbs’ to the test of corpora / Caroline David -- Esphoric reference and pseudo-definiteness / Peter Willemse -- Why “an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm”: A corpus-based comparative study of metaphor in British and American political discourse / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Signalling spokenness in personal advertisements on the Web: The case of ESL countries in South East Asia / Peter K. W. Tan , Vincent B. Y. Ooi and Andy K. L. Chiang -- Textual colligation: a special kind of lexical priming / Michael Hoey -- Adverbials in IT-cleft constructions / Hilde Hasselgård -- On the pragmatic functions of let’s utterances / Bernard De Clerck -- Methodological problems in corpus-based historical pragmatics. The case of English directives / Thomas Kohnen -- Measure noun constructions: degrees of delexicalization and grammaticalization / Lieselotte Brems -- Yourself: a general-purpose emphatic-reflexive? / Göran Kjellmer -- Aspects of spoken vocabulary development in the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus of Children’s English / Clive Souter -- Demonstrative reference as a cohesive device in advanced learner writing: a corpus-based study / Roumiana Blagoeva -- Translations as semantic mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet / Helge Dyvik -- Physical contact verbs in English and Swedish from the perspective of crosslinguistic lexicology / Åke Viberg -- Exploring theme contrastively: the choice of model / Anna-Lena Fredriksson -- Welcoming children, pets and guests: towards functional equivalence in the languages of ‘Agriturismo’ and ‘Farmhouse Holidays’ / Elena Tognini Bonelli and Elena Manca -- Using WebCorp in the classroom for building specialized dictionaries / Natalie Kübler -- The accidental corpus: some issues in extracting linguistic information from the Web / Antoinette Renouf , Andrew Kehoe and David Mezquiriz.