29.4880, Books: Taming the Corpus: Fidler, Cvrček (eds.)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4880. Fri Dec 07 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4880, Books: Taming the Corpus: Fidler, Cvrček (eds.)

Moderator: linguist at linguistlist.org (Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté)
Homepage: https://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburn at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:20:26
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Taming the Corpus: Fidler, Cvrček (eds.)

 


Title: Taming the Corpus 
Subtitle: From Inflection and Lexis to Interpretation 
Series Title: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319980164 


Editor: Masako Fidler
Editor: Václav Cvrček

Hardback: ISBN:  9783319980164 Pages: 231 Price: Europe EURO 109.99


Abstract:

This book bridges the current quantitative and qualitative text analyses,
using grammar as a crucial source of investigation. Taking data from Czech, an
inflected language, in which the most optimal conditions to respond to this
research question are met, the book expands the understanding of language and
text in ways that have not been executed before. For predominantly
English-based quantitative research, this volume fills a crucial gap by
examining the relationship between inflection and other phenomena (including
discourse, translation and literature). For the current qualitative research,
the volume provides large empirical data to confirm some of its claims, but
more importantly, it demonstrates the important role of detailed grammatical
concepts that have not been considered before. Besides addressing fundamental
questions about text analysis methods, the volume presents a diverse array of
Czech data that are unique in their own right and worthy of dissemination to
the general audience. 

Taming the Corpus: From Inflection and Lexis to Interpretation is divided into
three sections. Section 1 deals with phonotactics, poetic structure,
morphological complexity used to differentiate literary style, and native
speakers’ sense of grammaticality – issues pertinent to linguistic typology,
cognition and language, and literary studies. Section 2 focuses on
inter-language relations, especially the theory of translation. Section 3
demonstrates how quantitative analysis of texts can contribute to our
understanding of society and connects the volume to legal language,
construction of gender and discourse position and implicit ideology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=132393




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4880	
----------------------------------------------------------