[Corpora-List] Plea for help

[P Heacock]

Cambridge University Press publishes a few books that may be helpful:

* Corpus Linguistics by Biber, Conrad & Reppen
* Corpora in Applied Linguistics by Hunston
* English Corpus Linguistics by Meyer
* Genre Analysis by Swales

Best wishes,
 
Paul Heacock
Commissioning Editor, ESL/EFL Reference
Cambridge University Press
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On 11/7/2002 7:33 AM, Isa Abdul kaader <I.Abdul-kaader at postgrad.umist.ac.uk> wrote:
>Dear members,
>
>    I just started on my course in Corpus Linguistics but alas due 
>to poor 
>introduction, I seem to be completely lost. Could anyone of you kind 
>souls 
>direct me to any reading or sites that gives clear introduction on 
>what is 
>Corpus Linguistics, the areas of concerns within the field.
>
>   I would on the whole like to know how to complie the needed corpus. 
>I am 
>purely interested in technical writing ( be it technical reports 
>or business 
>writing) and the methodology to analyse.
>
>   many thanks for your help.
>
>A desperate soul
>Rafiq
>Temasek Polytechnic
>Singapore
>
>     
>
>
>
>
>Quoting Veronika Koller <Veronika.Koller at isis.wu-wien.ac.at>:
>
>> Dear list members,
>> has anyone come acrooss the problem described below and found a 
>solution to
>> it?
>> 
>> Whenever I want to save a concordance as a txt or Word file, copy 
>and paste
>> it to Word or the Editor, and even when expanding concordance lines, 
>the
>> node word changes to seemingly anywhere in the text, making it 
>impossible
>> to properly work with attested results. 
>> 
>> Since this is starting to drive me crazy, your help in maintaining 
>sanity
>> in academia will be much appreciated indeed. ;-)
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Veronika Koller
>> 
>> Mag.a Veronika Koller
>> Department of English/Business English
>> Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
>> Augasse 9
>> A-1090 Vienna
>> Tel.: 43/1/31336-4068
>> Fax: 43/1/31336-747
>> 
>> 
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