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  • The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity

    Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application

    by Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its further study.The book traces the development of the RF approach from its foundations in two major research strands of linguistics: the study of sociolinguistic variation and the text-linguistic study of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora

    A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness

    by Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray ...
    Corpora are ubiquitous in linguistic research, yet to date, there has been no consensus on how to conceptualize corpus representativeness and collect corpus samples. This pioneering book bridges this gap by introducing a conceptual and methodological framework for corpus design and representativeness. Written by experts in the field, it shows how corpora can be designed and built in a way that is ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Doing Linguistics with a Corpus

    Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User

    by Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Douglas Biber ...
    Series series Elements in Corpus Linguistics
    Paradoxically, doing corpus linguistics is both easier and harder than it has ever been before. On the one hand, it is easier because we have access to more existing corpora, more corpus analysis software tools, and more statistical methods than ever before. On the other hand, reliance on these existing corpora and corpus linguistic methods can potentially create layers of distance between the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Variation in English

    Multi-Dimensional Studies

    by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad ...
    Series series Studies in Language and Linguistics
    Studies in Language and LinguisticsGeneral Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, BangorBroad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional seriesincorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics.Variation in English- Multi-Dimensional ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Register, Genre, and Style

    by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Grammatical Complexity in Academic English

    Linguistic Change in Writing

    by Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Register Variation Online

    by Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert ...
    While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google search, from registers like news reports, product reviews, travel blogs, discussion forums, FAQs, etc. Based on analysis of a large, near-random corpus ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Register, Genre, and Style

    by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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    Contrasting Theoretical Approaches

    by Ben Ambridge, Elena V. M. Lieven ...
    Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics

    by Helen Smith Cairns, Eva M. Fernández ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Linguistics
    Introducing the fundamental issues in psycholinguistics, this book explores the amazing story of the unconscious processes that take place when humans use language. It is an ideal text for undergraduates taking a first course in the study of language.Topics covered include the biological foundations of language; acquisition of first and second languages in children and adults; the mental lexicon; ... Read more

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  • The Geometry of Meaning

    Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    by Peter Gardenfors ...
    A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our ... Read more

    $28.99 USD