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A Taste for Corpora
In honour of Sylviane Granger
The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors’ respective domain of expertise and suggest directions for future research. The main focus of the book is on learner corpora, but it also includes reflections on the role of other types of corpora, such as native corpora, expert users corpora, parallel corpora or corpora of New Englishes. For readers who are already familiar with corpora, this volume offers an informed account of the key role that corpus data play in applied linguistics today. As for readers who are new to corpus linguistics, the overview of approaches, methods and domains of applications presented will undoubtedly help them develop their own taste for corpora. This volume has been edited in honour of Sylviane Granger, who has been one of the pioneers of learner corpus research.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 45] 2011. xv, 295 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 August 2011
Published online on 3 August 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- List of contributors | pp. xi–xii
- PrefaceBengt Altenberg | pp. xiii–xvi
- Putting corpora to good uses: A guided tourSylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Fanny Meunier and Magali Paquot | pp. 1–6
- Frequency, corpora and language learningGeoffrey N. Leech | pp. 7–32
- Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysisHilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson | pp. 33–62
- The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literaciesJoAnne Neff and Caroline Bunce | pp. 63–84
- Revisiting apprentice texts: Using lexical bundles to investigate expert and apprentice performances in academic writingChristopher Tribble | pp. 85–108
- Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corporaPaul Rayson and Alistair Baron | pp. 109–126
- Data mining with learner corpora: Choosing classifiers for L1 detectionScott Jarvis | pp. 127–154
- Learners and users – Who do we want corpus data from?Anna Mauranen | pp. 155–172
- Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs: A corpus-informed studyNorbert Schmitt and Stephen Redwood | pp. 173–208
- Corpora and the new Englishes: Using the ‘Corpus of Cyber-Jamaican’ to explore research perspectives for the futureChristian Mair | pp. 209–236
- Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learningDavid Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao | pp. 237–256
- Automating the creation of dictionaries: Where will it all end?Michael Rundell and Adam Kilgarriff | pp. 257–282
- addendumSelect list of publications by Sylviane Granger | pp. 283–288
- Subject index | pp. 289–292
- Name index | pp. 293–295
“‘A Taste for Corpora’ offers a diverse and rich collections of essays, all of a high quality, covering a wide spectrum of topics related to the applications of corpora in language learning [...] a fitting as well as wonderful collection of essays to honour the achievements of Sylviane Granger.”
Marlies Gabriele Prinzl, University College London, on Linguist List 23.2764, 2012
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