From Data to Evidence in English Language Research.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
- Language and Computers Series ; v.83 .
- Language and Computers Series .
Intro -- From Data to Evidence in English Language Research -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data -- Part 1: Evidence from "Big Data -- 2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics -- 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design -- 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English -- 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English -- Part 2: Evidence from "Rich Data"? -- 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data -- 7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist's Perspective -- 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions -- 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence -- Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? -- 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor -- 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English -- 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets -- 13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics -- 14 Charting New Sources of ELF Data: A Multi-Genre Corpus Approach -- Index.
From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.