Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use

by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521499577
• ISBN13: 9780521499576
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"