Description: Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods.
Review Quotes:
"...I highly recommend Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline to anyone with any interest in linguistic corpora. Besides bringing students and practitioners of other branches of linguistics up to speed on advances in modern corpus linguistics, this volume may as a secondary effect help inform applied, computational, descriptive, and even theoretical linguists about each other's fields... In any event, this collection is a wonderful addition to the currently available textbooks on corpus linguistics, and provides yet another reason that, as the editors say in their introduction, 'this is a good time to bcome a corpus linguist'. Robert Malouf, San Diego State University. Compuational Linguistics" --Robert Malouf, San Diego State University
"...the book has been compiled with a lot of thought, covering a large number of different topic areas within corpus linguistics. The editors' introductions to each chapter are very useful as they do not only briefly summarize the chapter but also put it into context for the readers. All chapters are relatively short so that they are not overwhelming for a reader new to the area and all were selected for their importance to the field of corpus linguistics." --Blurb from reviewer "'...the book is an extremely valuable resource to own, not only for corpus linguists as reference, but also for those newly interested in the area to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics as well as the historical development that it has undergone.' Ute Knoch, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Review on LinguistList." --Blurb from reviewer