nam a22 c 4500 scl.6/258008881 nljbp 250625080359.2 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2001 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2001025061 9789027285447 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P128.C68 410/.1 21 CF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Tognini-Bonelli, Elena author Corpus Linguistics at Work Elena Tognini-Bonelli Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001 ©2001 1 online resource (xii, 224 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Corpus Linguistics 1388-0373 6 Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Language teaching -- 3. Corpus issues -- 4. The Corpus-based approach -- 5. The corpus-driven approach -- 6. Item and environment -- 7. Working with corpora across languages -- 8. The contextual theory of meaning -- 9. Historical landmarks in meaning -- 10. Conclusion 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 linguistic description defined systematically in the light of corpus evidence. The applications where the corpus-driven approach is exemplified are language teaching and contrastive linguistics. Alternating between practical examples and theoretical evaluation, the reader is led step-by-step to a detailed understanding of the issues involved in corpus work and, at the same time, tempted to explore for himself some of the major applications where a corpus-driven methodology can reveal unprecedented insights into linguistic patterning. Provided by publisher. Corpus linguistics Tognini-Bonelli, Elena author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001 9789027222763 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.6 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285447