Corpora and Lexis.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Language and Computers Series ; v.81 .
- Language and Computers Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Hoffmann, Sand, Arndt-Lappe and Dillmann) -- Chapter 1. Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary (Weiner) -- Chapter 2. Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage (Renouf) -- Chapter 3. Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance (Schlüter and Knappe) -- Chapter 4. Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English (Aijmer) -- Chapter 5. The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions (Kirk) -- Chapter 6. Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-register Study of Connectors of Contrast (Dupont) -- Chapter 7. Towards a Model of Co-collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results (Almela and Cantos) -- Chapter 8. The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy (Gabrielatos) -- Chapter 9. Tracking L2 Writers' Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus (Bestgen and Granger) -- Index of Concepts -- Index of Corpora and Databases.
This collection of research articles provides state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexico-grammar, focussing on major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), their theoretical implications and the pedagogical applications of corpus findings.
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English language-Grammar-Data processing-Congresses. English language-Discourse analysis-Data processing-Congresses. Computational linguistics-Congresses.