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

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 centra...

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Superior document:Language and Computers, Volume 79
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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.
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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.