English Corpus Linguistics : An Introduction (Broché)

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analysing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real, rather than contrived, data. Charles F. Meyer goes on to describe how to plan the creation of a corpus, how to collect and computerise data for inclusion in a corpus, how to annotate the data that is collected, and how to conduct a corpus analysis of a completed corpus. The book concludes with an overview of the future challenges that corpus linguists face to make both the creation and analysis of corpora much easier undertakings than they currently are. Clearly organised and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students of linguistics, applied linguistics and English language.