The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA (Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics) - Softcover

Aston, Guy; Burnard, Lou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748610553 ISBN 13: 9780748610556

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This textbook is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the principles and practices underlying the use of large language corpora in exploratory learning and English language teaching and research. It focuses on the largest and most representative corpus of spoken and written data yet compiled--the British National Corpus--and on the search tool SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application). The method adopted is to provide a graded series of exercises, each introducing at the same time new features of the software and new techniques or applications for computer-assisted language learning.

About this title

About the Author

Lou Burnard is Computing Services at the Oxford University

Review

'The book provides valuable information on the operation of SARA. Its instructions are clear, the tasks set thereader are natural and wide-ranging, and the skills it seeks to inculcatemake full use of the potentiality of corpus study'. -- Michael Hoey 'The book provides valuable information on the operation of SARA. Its instructions are clear, the tasks set thereader are natural and wide-ranging, and the skills it seeks to inculcatemake full use of the potentiality of corpus study'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0748610553
• ISBN 13: 9780748610556
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256