[Corpora-List] New Book on Web as Corpus

[gtmr01li at uniba.it]

Dear all,
some of you might be interested in a new book on the web as corpus, 
published in Italy by Editori Laterza ? University Press Online. The 
publication details are as follows:

Author: Maristella Gatto
Title: From Body to Web. An Introduction to the Web as Corpus 
Publisher: Editori Laterza ? University Press Online (Bari-Roma)
ISBN: 97-888-4208-8
Pages : 196

The book is part of a project involving Editori Laterza and the 
Dipartimento S.A.G.E.O. (Studi Anglo-Germanici e dell?Europa Orientale) 
at the University of Bari, Italy. The PDF version of the book can be 
downloaded free of charge from the publisher?s website:
www.universitypressonline.it

Please note that an English version of this website is still under way. 
If you are interested in the book and have problems with the download, 
do not hesitate to contact the author at m.gatto at lingue.uniba.it  
providing personal information, country and affiliation.


Maristella Gatto is Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the 
University of Bari. She has published on contemporary Irish poetry, 
translation and tourism discourse.

ABSTRACT
In this book the web?s controversial status as a corpus is investigated 
on both theoretical and applicative grounds. While the notion of a 
linguistic corpus as a body of texts rests on some related issues such 
as finite size, balance, permanence, the very idea of a web of texts 
brings about notions of non-finiteness, flexibility, provisionality. It 
is against this background that the book  revisits  key issues in 
corpus linguistics from the perspective of the web and explores the new 
issues that the emerging notion of the web as corpus possibly raises.



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