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  • Swearing in English

    Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

    by Tony McEnery ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language.Drawing on a variety of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

    by Tony McEnery, Vaclav Brezina ...
    How might evidence of language use – writing and speech – be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and there is still a degree of divergence in how research questions are approached using corpus data. This book uses a framework, based on the work of ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

    A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English

    by Tony McEnery, Isobelle Clarke, Gavin Brookes ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars – learners also need to learn how to put together conversations in their new language and to vary the way they interact across different contexts. This book shows, using millions of words of data, how this happens. It is the first large ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Corpus Linguistics

    Method, Theory and Practice

    by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

    by Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Chinese is more ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Arabic Corpus Linguistics

    Edited by Tony McEnery ...

    $25.49 USD

  • The Language of Violent Jihad

    by Paul Baker, Rachelle Vessey, Tony McEnery ...
    How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts? This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify and examine the linguistic strategies employed. Taking a mixed methods approach, the authors combine quantitative methods from corpus linguistics, which allows the identification of frequent words and phrases, ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes

    The Representation of Islam in the British Press

    by Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Tony McEnery ...
    Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of media attitudes. The authors analyse representations around frequently cited topics such as Muslim ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Historical Medical Discourse

    Corpus Linguistic Perspectives

    Edited by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Emma Putland ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical knowledge and practices ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

    by Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins, Tony McEnery ...
    Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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  • Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary

    A Guide for Research

    by Paweł Szudarski ...
    Series series Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
    Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpus tools, the author provides a step-by-step guide on how corpora can be used to explore key vocabulary-related research questions and topics such as:The frequency of English words and how to choose which ones should be taught to learners;How spoken ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

    by Rod Ellis ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    In the 30 years since Rod Ellis first published the award-winning Understanding Second Language Acquisition, it has become a classic text. This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition. Ellis presents a comprehensive overview of the different theories in this field and ... Read more

    $65.29 USD