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Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics
Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the Flagstaff school: a careful procedure for language corpora collection with special consideration for corpus size, representativeness, sampling and systematic analysis; the use of computer programming abilities that allow the posing of corpus-based research questions never asked before; and a strong emphasis on the combination of quantitative methods based on sound and innovative statistical procedures complemented with comprehensive qualitative functional analyses of the language. This volume has been edited in honor of Douglas Biber, a pioneer of the American school of corpus-based research.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 66] 2015. xix, 219 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 January 2015
Published online on 20 January 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors | pp. vii–viii
- ForewordMichael McCarthy | pp. ix–xiv
- Douglas Biber and the Flagstaff School of corpus-based research: An introductionViviana Cortes and Eniko Csomay | pp. xv–xx
- Introduction
- A corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation in teacher and student presentations in university settingsEniko Csomay | pp. 1–24
- Telephone interactions: A multidimensional comparisonEric Friginal | pp. 25–48
- On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexityBethany Gray | pp. 49–78
- Telling by omission: Hedging and negative evaluation in academic recommendation lettersMohammed Albakry | pp. 79–98
- Corpora, context, and language teachers: Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus projectAlfredo Urzua | pp. 99–122
- The challenge of constructing a reliable word list: An exploratory corpus-based analysis of lexical variability in introductory Psychology textbooksDon Miller | pp. 123–146
- Corpus linguistics and New EnglishesChandrika Balasubramanian | pp. 147–176
- Investigating textual borrowing in academic discourse: The need for a corpus-based approachCasey Keck | pp. 177–196
- Situating lexical bundles in the formulaic language spectrum: Origins and functional analysis developmentsViviana Cortes | pp. 197–216
- Index | pp. 217–219
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