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Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It... -
Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction by Tony McEnery
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in the rapidly changing... -
Arabic Corpus Linguistics Tony McEnery 9780748677375
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern... -
Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery 9781107624689
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.15How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It... -
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice by Tony McEnery 9780521838511
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £77.22Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the... -
Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese by Tony McEnery
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has... -
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice by Tony McEnery 9780521547369
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.90Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the... -
Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present by Tony McEnery
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of... -
Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English by Tony McEnery 9781009208956
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.57How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars – learners also need to learn how to... -
14th Information Retrieval Colloquium: Proceedings of the BCS 14th Information Retrieval Colloquium, University of Lancaster, 13-14 April 1992 by Tony McEnery 9783540198086
Booksplease Price: £46.74We hope that all readers will find the papers included in this volume of interest. All were presented at the 14th BCS IRSG Research Colloquium held at Lancaster University on 13th-14th April 1992... -
The Language of Hate: A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language by Andrew Brindle 9780367024321
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and... -
Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK) 9781138895805
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Corpus linguistics has now come of age and Corpus Approaches to Discourse equips students with the means to question, defend and refine the methodology. Looking at corpus linguistics in discourse... -
Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda by Dan McIntyre 9781138237513 [USED COPY]
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £17.75Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical... -
Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research by Paul Baker 9780367024338
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics... -
Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda by Dan McIntyre
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical... -
Arabic Corpus Linguistics by 9781474485456
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern... -
Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014 by Vaclav Brezina 9780367590284
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English... -
Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study by Magnus Ljung 9780230576315
Booksplease Price: £112.12This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first... -
Corpora in Translator Education by Federico Zanettin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years... -
Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language by Michael Hoey 9780415328630
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the... -
A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics by Paul Baker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.40This alphabetic guide provides definitions and discussion of key terms used in corpus linguistics. Corpus data is being used in a growing number of English and Linguistics departments which have no... -
The Language of Violent Jihad by Paul Baker
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.54How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts? This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify and examine the... -
The Language of Violent Jihad by Paul Baker 9781108431378
Booksplease Price: £25.04How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts? This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify and examine the... -
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners by Richard Xiao
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly... -
Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora by Paul Baker 9781137431721
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £105.30This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering... -
Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book Anthony McEnery 9780415286237
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and... -
Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction by Beatrix Busse 9780190212360
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.14Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader... -
The ICNALE Guide: An Introduction to a Learner Corpus Study on Asian Learners' L2 English Shin'ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe University, Japan) 9781032180250
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples of Asian learners'... -
Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press by Paul Baker
Booksplease Price: £32.12Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and... -
English Language: Description, Variation and Context by Jonathan Culpeper
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.18The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics. Written by leading academics in the field, this...