Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics

Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics / Paul Baker.

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also comple...

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Main Author: Baker, Paul, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Edinburgh sociolinguistics.
Subjects:
Corpora (Linguistics)
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Sociolinguistics
Korpus > Linguistik
Soziolinguistik
Korpus (Linguistik)
Lehrbuch.
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Summary:This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also complement qualitative traditions of enquiry such as interactional sociolinguistics. This text covers a range of different topics within sociolinguistics:*Analysing demographic variation*Comparing language use across different cultures*Examining language change over time*Studying transcripts of spoken inte.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780748631469
0748631461
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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