Corpus linguistics on the move : : exploring and understanding English through corpora / / edited by María José López-Couso [and three others].

• Superior document: Language and Computers, Volume 79
• TeilnehmendeR: López-Couso, María José,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; Volume 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal. Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Siân Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgård, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Mäkinen, Beatriz Mato-Míguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 From the Fringe to the Mainstream: English Corpus Linguistics Moving Ahead / María José López-Couso , Belén Méndez-Naya , Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez -- 2 English Urban Vernaculars, 1400–1700: Digitizing Text from Manuscript / Anita Auer , Moragh Gordon and Mike Olson -- 3 Creating a Corpus of Student Writing in Economics: Structure and Representativeness / Martti Mäkinen and Turo Hiltunen -- 4 Ongoing Changes and Advanced L2 Use of English: Evidence from New Corpus Resources / Mikko Laitinen -- 5 Verbs and Verb Phrases in Advanced Dutch efl Writing: Case Studies in Quantitative and Qualitative efl Analysis / Pieter de Haan -- 6 Discourse-Organizing Metadiscourse in Novice Academic English / Hilde Hasselgård -- 7 Passives in Academic Writing: Comparing Research Articles and Student Essays Across Four Disciplines / Turo Hiltunen -- 8 Adverbial Hapax Legomena in News Text: Why do some Coinages Remain Hapax? / Antoinette Renouf -- 9 English in South Africa: The Case of Past-Referring Verb Forms / Johan Elsness -- 10 A Look at Participial Constructions with Get in Hong Kong English / Eduardo Coto-Villalibre -- 11 Who is the/a/Ø Professor at Your University? A Construction Grammar View on Changing Article Use with Single Role Predicates in American English / Marianne Hundt -- 12 Clause Fragments in English Dialogue / Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts -- 13 The Expression of Directive Meaning: A Corpus-Based Study on the Variation between Imperatives, Conditionals, and Insubordinate If-Clauses in Spoken British English / Beatriz Mato-Míguez -- 14 Taboo Language and Swearing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English: A Diachronic Study Based on the Old Bailey Corpus / Bianca Widlitzki and Magnus Huber -- 15 The ‘Humour’ Element in Engineering Lectures Across Cultures: An Approach to Pragmatic Annotation / Siân Alsop -- Index.