Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English: 3rd Edition - Hans Lindquist

Name: Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English: 3rd Edition - Hans Lindquist
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.\nAfter introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, gender and language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations as well as including a section on creating your own corpus. Each chapter includes new study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further\n\nCorpus Linguistics and the Description of English\n3rd Edition\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease not;