Corpus linguistics : : refinements and reassessments / / edited by Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 69
• TeilnehmendeR: Kehoe, Andrew.; Renouf, Antoinette.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; no. 69.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (471 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction. Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments /; Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change /; Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics /; Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship /; 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day /; Comparing type counts: The case of women, men and -ity in early English letters /; Does English have modal particles? /; A reassessment of the syntactic classification of pragmatic expressions: the positions of you know and I think with special attention to you know as a marker of metalinguistic awareness /; The functions of expletive interjections in spoken English /; Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991 /; Joseph Wright’s ‘English Dialect Dictionary’ in electronic form: A critical discussion of selected lexicographic parameters and query options /; How representative are the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ of 17th-century scientific writing? /; A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpus /; Weaving web data into a diachronic corpus patchwork /; “To each reader his, their or her pronoun”. Prescribed, proscribed and disregarded uses of generic pronouns in English /; The interpersonal function of going to in written American English /; Re-analysing the semi-modal ought to: an investigation of its use in the LOB, FLOB, Brown and Frown corpora /; On the use of split infinitives in English /; Exploring change in the system of English predicate complementation, with evidence from corpora of recent English /; Encoding of goal-directed motion vs resultative aspect in the COME + infinitive construction /; A corpus-based analysis of invariant tags in five varieties of English /; Discourse presentation in EFL textbooks: a BNC-based study /; Awful adjectives: a type of semantic change in present-day corpora /; Global English – Global Corpora: Report on a panel discussion at the 28th ICAME conference /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282594494; 9786612594496; 9042025980; 1441617043
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe.

Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts. As time goes by, the corpus linguist operates increasingly in the awareness of what has gone before. Corpus Linguistics, thirty years on, is less an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch than an informed, critical reassessment of existing analytical orthodoxy, in the light of new data coming on stream. This volume comprises twenty-two articles penned by members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, which together provide a critical and informed reappraisal of the facts, data, methods and tools of Corpus Linguistics which are available today. Authors reconsider the boundaries of the discipline, exploring its areas of commonality with Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Discourse Linguistics, and Lexical Statistics and showing how that commonality is potentially of immense benefit to practitioners in the fields concerned. The volume culminates in the report of a timely and novel expert panel discussion on the role of Corpus Linguistics in the study of English as a global language. This encompasses issues such as English as an international lingua franca, ‘norms’ for global English, and the question of ‘ownership’, or who qualifies as a native speaker.