Corpus linguistics and variation in English : : theory and description / / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 75
• Author: International ICAME Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Mukherjee, Joybrato.; Huber, Magnus.; International ICAME Conference (31st : 2010 : Giessen, Germany)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; no. 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Notes: Conference papers.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English /; Listenership in polylogic discourse /; and now I’m finally of the mind to say i hope the whole ship goes down...: Markers of subjectivity and evaluative phraseology in blogs /; Using COCA to evaluate The Chicago Manual of Style’s usage prescriptions /; Corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more fruitful exchanges /; Syntactic variation and lexical preference in the dative-shift alternation /; The corpus stylistic analysis of fiction – or the fiction of corpus stylistics? /; How can Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary be used as a corpus? /; Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes /; Hidden structures in English corpora /; Automatically exploring lexical tendencies in English /; Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account /; Modal would as a pragmatic softener in ICE Ireland /; “Talked the council out of adopting any resolution”: On the transitive out of -ing construction in American English /; Tracking the evolution of vernaculars: Corpus linguistics and earlier Southern US Englishes /; Methodological issues in a television news corpus: Discourse and annotation /; Corpora and texts: Lexis and text structure /; On the persistence of ambiguous linguistic contexts over time: Implications for corpus research on micro-changes /; Premodifying -ing participles in the parsed BNC /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1280875461; 9786613716774; 9401207712
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber.

The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010. The conference topic was “Corpus linguistics and variation in English”. All the papers included in the present Conference Proceedings capture aspects of variation in language use on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and/or new methods of utilising corpora for the description of language variation. Of particular interest are the five plenary papers that are included in the present volume, focusing on corpus-based approaches to variation in language from different disciplinary perspectives: Stefan Th. Gries (quantitative-statistical descriptions of variation and corpora), Michaela Mahlberg (stylistic variation and corpora), Miriam Meyerhoff (variational sociolinguistics and corpora), Edgar W. Schneider (regional variation and corpora) and Elizabeth C. Traugott (historical variation/grammaticalization and corpora).