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Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting the impact which advances in communication systems have had on message relays, this book enables a critical evaluation of the way language is used in the news.

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Presents a corpus-based account of evaluation, using a corpus of one hundred newspaper articles comprising a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media. This book offers a way forward for analysing the expression of opinion, by proposing a framework of evaluation that can be applied to different types of discourse.

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Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents a corpus-based account of evaluation: one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.

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Presents an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

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Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. It analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production and technological innovation and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

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Reflects the influence of corpus linguistics in areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis, and language teaching. This book is divided into two sections, the first on monolingual corpora and the second addressing multilingual corpora. It is of interest to academics researching the applications of corpus linguistics.

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Contains papers which focus on meaning, studied not only in monolingual environments, but also contrastively in multilingual contexts.

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Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, this book focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community.

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Offers an overview of research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning. This book focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. It also focuses on various corpus-based tools for LSP learning. It illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data.

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Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity by bringing together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction'.

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Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity, by bringing a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question: Which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction