Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User

ISBN-13: 9781108744850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 75 str.

EGBERT JESSE

Opis

We propose approaches that help place language description back at the center stage of quantitative corpus linguistic research.

Recenzje

'… provides some great insights in to how to improve research for linguists interested in using corpora as tools for language analysis.' Tyler Kimball Anderson, LINGUIST List

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Getting to know your corpus; 3. Research designs: linguistically meaningful research questions, observational units, variables, and dispersion; 4. Linguistically interpretable variables; 5. Software tools and linguistic interpretability; 6. The role of statistical analysis in linguistic descriptions; 7. Interpreting quantitative results; 8. Wrapping up.