Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Language and Computers Series ; v.80 .
- Language and Computers Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 How Many Languages are there in a Monolingual Corpus? -- Chapter 2 Indian English or Indian Englishes? Accounting for Speakers' Multilingual Repertoires in Corpora of Postcolonial Englishes -- Chapter 3 Mono- and Multilingualism in a Specialized Corpus of New Zealand Stories -- Chapter 4 What Happens to Ongoing Change in Multilingual Settings? A Corpus Compiler's Perspective on New Data and New Research Prospects -- Chapter 5 Multilingual Speakers, Multilingual Texts: Multilingual Practices in Learner Corpora -- Chapter 6 Multilingualism in English as a Lingua Franca: Flagging as an Indicator of Perceived Acceptability and Intelligibility -- Chapter 7 English Commonplace Books as Multilingual Receiver Corpora -- Chapter 8 Multilingual Practices in the Corpus of English Religious Prose: Annotation and Access -- Chapter 9 Semi-automatic Discovery of Multilingual Elements in English Historical Corpora: Methods and Challenges -- Chapter 10 'Multilinguality' in Learner Corpora: The Case of the MILE -- Chapter 11 Multilingualism and Quotations from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective: A Case Study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora brings new insights into the monolingual ideal that has permeated most branches of linguistics, also corpus linguistics, for a long time.