24.81, Books: Approaching Language Variation through Corpora: Sigley, Yamazaki (Eds)
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From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Approaching Language Variation through Corpora: Sigley, Yamazaki (Eds)
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Title: Approaching Language Variation through Corpora
Subtitle: A Festschrift in Honour of Toshio Saito
Series Title: Linguistic Insights - Volume 167
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431264
Editor: Shunji Yamazaki
Editor: Robert Sigley
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312646 Pages: 425 Price: U.S. $ 114.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312646 Pages: 425 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312646 Pages: 425 Price: Europe EURO 88.00
Abstract:
This book is a collection of papers using samples of real language data
(corpora) to explore variation in the use of English. This collection
celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito, a pioneer in corpus linguistics
within Japan and founder of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
(JAECS).
The main aims throughout the collection are to present practical solutions for
methodological and interpretational problems common in such research, and to
make the research methods and issues as accessible as possible, to educate and
inspire future researchers. Together, the papers represent many different
dimensions of variation, including: differences in (frequency of) use under
different linguistic conditions; differences between styles or registers of
use; change over time; differences between regional varieties; differences
between social groups; and differences in use by one individual on different
occasions. The papers are grouped into four sections: studies considering
methodological problems in the use of real language samples; studies
describing features of language usage in different linguistic environments in
modern English; studies following change over time; and case studies
illustrating variation in usage for different purposes, or by different groups
or individuals, in society.
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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