Exploring English With Online Corpora

An introduction

Wendy Anderson, John Corbett (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-55139-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Never before have so many resources been available to support the teaching of English. With clear descriptions and interactive tasks, this introduction demonstrates how online corpora can be used in the teaching and learning of English at different linguistic levels, including vocabulary, grammar, discourse and pronunciation.

Autor

WENDY ANDERSON is a Lecturer in the department of English Language at Glasgow University, UK.Formerly, shewasthe researcherforthe Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speechand Corpus of Modern Scottish Writingprojects.She has published on corpus linguisticsof English and French. JOHN CORBETT is Full Professor of English Studies at the University of Macau. Formerly in the department of English Language at Glasgow University, UK, he directed the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing.He is the co-author ofBeginning Old English with Carole Hough (Palgrave, 2006) and has written widely on language and education.

Inhalt

Introducing Online Corpora.- Interpreting Corpus Data.- Exploring Lexis with Corpora.- Exploring Grammar with Corpora.- Exploring Discourse with Corpora.- Exploring Pronunciation with Corpora.- Contextualising Corpus Texts.- Conclusion: Issues in the Use of Corpora in Teaching and Research.- Appendix: Online Corpora.- Bibliography.- Glossary.- Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 224 p.
• Verlagsort: Basingstoke
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 497 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-230-55139-4 / 0230551394
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-55139-8 / 9780230551398
• Zustand: Neuware