Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) - Hardcover

Biber, Douglas; Conrad, Susan; Reppen, Randi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521496225 ISBN 13: 9780521496223

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.

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About the Author

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He has worked in Kenya and Somalia, and has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Uppsala, University of Helsinki, University of Zurich, the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His previous books include Variation across Speech and Writing, Dimensions of Register Variation, Corpus Linguistics, The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, and Discourse on the Move.

Review

"This book could be used as part of the curriculum for an introductory corpus linguistics class, especially for students with a humanities background." Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Computational Linguistics

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521496225
• ISBN 13: 9780521496223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 310