30.4592, Books: Corpus Stylistics: McIntyre, Walker

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:40:49
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Corpus Stylistics: McIntyre, Walker

 


Title: Corpus Stylistics 
Subtitle: Theory and Practice 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-corpus-stylistics.html 


Author: Dan McIntyre
Author: Brian Walker

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474413237 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474413220 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 90
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474413206 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 90
Paperback: ISBN:  9781474413213 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 24.99


Abstract:

A theoretical and practical guide to using corpus linguistic techniques in
stylistic analysis

The use of corpora in stylistics has increased substantially in recent years
but until now there has been no book detailing the theoretical basis and
methodological practices of corpus stylistics. This book surveys the field and
sets the agenda for this fast-developing area. Focusing on how to use
off-the-shelf corpus software, such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and the Brigham Young
University (BYU) corpus interface, this step-by-step guide explains the theory
and practice of using corpus methods and tools for stylistic analysis. Eight
original case studies demonstrate how to use corpus tools to analyse style in
a range of texts, from the contemporary to the historical. The authors explain
how to develop appropriate research questions for corpus stylistic analysis,
construct and annotate corpora, make sense of statistics, and analyse corpus
data. In addition, the book provides practical advice on how to manage the
transition from quantitative results to qualitative analysis, and explores how
theories, models and frameworks from stylistics can be used to enhance the
qualitative phase of corpus analysis.

Supported by detailed instructions on how to access and use relevant corpus
software, this is a user’s guide to doing corpus stylistic analysis. For
students and researchers in stylistics new to the use of corpus methods and
theories, the book presents a ‘how-to’ guide; for corpus linguists it opens
the door to the theories, models and frameworks developed in stylistics that
are of value to mainstream corpus linguistics.

* Contains detailed instructions on how to access and use three major corpus
tools – AntConc, Wmatrix and the BYU Corpus interface – plus other relevant
software

* Offers practical advice on constructing and annotating corpora

* Explains how corpus methods and theories can be used in stylistic analysis

* Provides guidance on using stylistic theories, models and frameworks in the
rigorous qualitative analysis of corpus data

* Demonstrates the benefits to be gained from corpus-based stylistic analysis
through eight original case studies

Available in North America from our distribution partner, Oxford University
Press.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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