Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English: 3rd Edition

Description:

A comprehensive introduction to corpus linguistics, featuring new case studies and practical exercises.

The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.

After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, gender and language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations as well as including a section on creating your own corpus. Each chapter includes new study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading. Readers also benefit from an accompanying web-page with exercises and updated information about freely accessible corpora.

Brief description: Hans Lindquist is Emeritus Professor in English at Malmö University.

Review Quotes: I am glad to see the third edition of this well-established introduction to English corpus-linguistics. It has maintained its two strengths - the clear focus and an accessible style - and is now fully up-to-date again on current developments in the field.--Christian Mair, Universität Freiburg