32.253, Books: Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Egbert, Larsson, Biber

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:39:15
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Egbert, Larsson, Biber

 


Title: Doing Linguistics with a Corpus 
Subtitle: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/doing-linguistics-corpus-methodological-considerations-everyday-user?format=PB 


Author: Jesse Egbert
Author: Tove Larsson
Author: Douglas Biber

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108744850 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108744850 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 15.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108744850 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 17.51


Abstract:

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 researcher and the language in a corpus, making it a
challenge to do linguistics with a corpus. The goal of this Element is to
explore ways for us to improve how we approach linguistic research questions
with quantitative corpus data. We introduce and illustrate the major steps in
the research process, including how to: select and evaluate corpora, establish
linguistically-motivated research questions, observational units and
variables, select linguistically interpretable variables, understand and
evaluate existing corpus software tools, adopt minimally sufficient
statistical methods, and qualitatively interpret quantitative findings.

1. Introduction; 2. Getting to know your corpus; 3. Research designs:
linguistically meaningful research questions, observational units, variables,
and dispersion; 4. Linguistically interpretable variables; 5. Software tools
and linguistic interpretability; 6. The role of statistical analysis in
linguistic descriptions; 7. Interpreting quantitative results; 8. Wrapping up.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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