Doing Corpus Linguistics

Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and a register analysis-based theoretical framework to provide applied linguistics and TESOL students with the understanding and skills to analyze corpora and carry out successful corpus-based research.

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Eniko Csomay is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages at San Diego State University, USA.

William J. Crawford is a Professor in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University, USA.

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Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and a register analysis-based theoretical framework to provide applied linguistics and TESOL students with the understanding and skills to analyze corpora and carry out successful corpus-based research.

Inhalt

List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I
Introduction to Doing Corpus Linguistics and Register Analysis

1 Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Language Variation
1.1 Language and Rules/Systems
1.2 What Is Corpus Linguistics?
1.3 Register, Genre, and Style Is There a Difference?
1.4 Outline of the Book

2 Register (Functional) Approach to Language Analysis
2.1 Why Register?
2.2 What Is a Register (Functional) Analysis?
2.3 Describing Situational Characteristics and Identifying Variables
2.4 Providing a Functional Interpretation
2.5 Units of Analysis and Register Studies
2.6 End of Chapter Exercises

PART II
Searches in Available Corpora

3 Searching a Corpus
3.1 Words

3.2 Collocates
3.3 N-Grams
3.4 POS Tags

4 Projects Using Publicly Available Corpora*4.1 Word- and Phrase-Based Projects4.2 Grammar-Based Projects*

PART III
Building Your Own Corpus, Analyzing Your Quantitative Results, and Making Sense of Data

5 Building Your Own Corpus
5.1 Do-It-Yourself Corpora
5.2 Deciding on a Corpus Project
5.3 Building a Corpus
5.4 Software Programs and Your Corpus

6 Basic Statistics
6.1 Why Do Statistical Analyses?
6.2 Basic Terms, Concepts, and Assumptions
6.3 How to Go About Getting the Statistical Results
6.4 End of Chapter Exercises

7 Statistical Tests (ANOVAs, Chi-square, Pearson Correlation)
7.1 Difference Tests
7.2 Relationship Tests
7.3 How to Go About Getting the Statistical Results
7.4 Effect Size
7.5 End of Chapter Exercises

8 Doing Corpus Linguistics
8.1 Doing a Register Analysis of Your Project
8.2 Situational Analysis
8.3 Linguistic Analysis
8.4 Functional Interpretation
8.5 Reporting on Your Project

9 A Way Forward

Available Corpora

Index