Corpus Linguistics: A Short Introduction

Description

This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introduces the key concepts in corpus linguistics and provides a brief history of the discipline. The second section expands the study of language and shows how corpus linguistics can advance our study of words and meaning, the benefits of studying the corpora, and how meaning can best be conceptualised. Explaining corpus linguistics in easy to understand terms, and including a glossary and suggestions for further reading, this book will be useful to students trying to get a grasp on this subject.

Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Anna Cermakova is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK.

"This book without a doubt is appealing for everybody interested in lexicography who wants to know how corpus linguistic can be used in lexicology and who ideally has some background knowledge about corpus linguistics."-Randall Eggert, The Linguist List -- The Linguist List "Reading this book thus helps one gain an insight into the problems of lexicology and of lexicography... This book is without a doubt appealing for everybody interested in lexicology and lexicography" -- Barbara Schlucker * Linguist List *