Description
Summary: | The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work. Thus, starting from the definition of what is a corpus and why reading a corpus calls for a different methodology from reading a text, the underlying assumptions behind corpus work are discussed. The two main approaches to corpus work are discussed as the "corpus-based" and the "corpus-driven" approach and the theoretical positions underlying them explored in detail. The book adopts and exemplifies the parameters of the corpus-driven approach and posits a new unit of lin
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027285447 9027285446 1283092492 9781283092494 9786613092496 6613092495 |
ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |