Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis
Book Details
Author(s)
Martin Weisser
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1118831888
ISBN-13
9781118831885
Availability
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Sales Rank
#701,302
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
This is the first book of its kind to provide a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and analyzed.
- Designed to equip readers with the technical skills necessary to analyze and interpret language data, both written and (orthographically) transcribed
- Introduces a number of easy-to-use, yet powerful, free analysis resources consisting of standalone programs and web interfaces for use with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
- Each section includes practical exercises, a list of sources and further reading, and illustrated step-by-step introductions to analysis tools
- Requires only a basic knowledge of computer concepts in order to develop the specific linguistic analysis skills required for understanding/analyzing corpus data
