Corpus Linguistics: A Short Introduction

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This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introducesthe key concepts in corpus linguistics and provides a brief history of the discipline. The second section expands the study of language and shows how corpus linguistics can advance our study of words and meaning, the benefits of studying the corpora, and how meaning can best be conceptualised. Explainingcorpus linguistics in easy to understand terms, and including a glossary and suggestions for further reading, thisbook will be useful to students trying to get a grasp on this subject.

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"This book without a doubt is appealing for everybody interested in lexicography who wants to know how corpus linguistic can be used in lexicology and who ideally has some background knowledge about corpus linguistics."--Randall Eggert, The Linguist List, September 17, 2007 -- Randall Eggert
"Reading this book thus helps one gain an insight into the problems of lexicology and of lexicography... This book is without a doubt appealing for everybody interested in lexicology and lexicography" -- Barbara Schlucker * Linguist List *

Author Bio

Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguisticsat the University of Birmingham. Anna Cermakova is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK.