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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Ken Hyland (University of East Anglia, UK) , Dr Meng Huat Chau (University of Malaya, Malaysia) , Associate Professor Michael HandfordPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.556kg ISBN: 9781441107800ISBN 10: 1441107800 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 21 June 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction Introduction Ken Hyland, Chau Meng Huat and Michael Handford Part 2: Corpora and Institutional Uses of Language 2. Professional Communication and Corpus Linguistics Michael Handford 3. Corpora and Academic Discourse Ken Hyland 4. Corpora and Workplace Discourse Almut Koester Part 3: Corpora in Applied Linguistics Domains 5. Corpora and Translation Studies Sara Laviosa 6. Some Aspects of the Use of Corpora in Forensic Linguistics John Olsson 7. Corpora and Gender Studies Paul Baker 8. Corpora and Media Studies Anne O'Keeffe Part 4: Corpora in New Spheres of Study 9. Corpora and ELF Barbara Seidlhofer 10. Texting and Corpora Caroline Tagg 11. A Conceptual Model for Segmenting and Annotating a Documentary Photograph Corpus Gu Yueguo Part 5. Corpora, Language Learning and Pedagogy 12. Learner Corpora and Second Language Acquisition Chau Meng Huat 13. Corpora in the Classroom: An Applied Linguistic Perspective Lynne Flowerdew 14. Corpora and Materials Design Michael McCarthy and Jeanne McCarten Afterword Susan Hunston Bibliography IndexReviewsWe may not be too far away from the day when reference to corpus data is a sine qua non for any linguistic description and investigation. This book provides an astonishingly successful step in this direction. The book bristles with powerful insights, good practical ideas, exciting theory-building, exemplifying on every page the practice of applied linguistics at its very best. -- Professor Ronald Carter, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham The contributions to this volume showcase a number of exciting ways in which corpora of different types, consisting of spoken and written text produced by different groups of people, including native and non-native speakers, business professionals and academics, can be used to help us solve, or at least better understand, real-world problems that are of major concern to applied linguists. I would recommend the volume to researchers, practitioners and students who are looking for fresh views on current work in the field and new ideas for future projects in Applied Corpus Linguistics. -- Dr. Ute Römer, Georgia State University, USA Readers will find many interesting suggestions and ideas for future study and research... Each separate chapter makes a valid contribution to the general theme of using corpora in applied linguistics. -- Carmela Chateau, Université de Bourgogne * Linguist * We may not be too far away from the day when reference to corpus data is a sine qua non for any linguistic description and investigation. This book provides an astonishingly successful step in this direction. The book bristles with powerful insights, good practical ideas, exciting theory-building, exemplifying on every page the practice of applied linguistics at its very best. -- Professor Ronald Carter, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham The contributions to this volume showcase a number of exciting ways in which corpora of different types, consisting of spoken and written text produced by different groups of people, including native and non-native speakers, business professionals and academics, can be used to help us solve, or at least better understand, real-world problems that are of major concern to applied linguists. I would recommend the volume to researchers, practitioners and students who are looking for fresh views on current work in the field and new ideas for future projects in Applied Corpus Linguistics. -- Dr. Ute Roemer, Georgia State University, USA Readers will find many interesting suggestions and ideas for future study and research... Each separate chapter makes a valid contribution to the general theme of using corpora in applied linguistics. -- Carmela Chateau, Universite de Bourgogne * Linguist * Author InformationKey Hyland is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Applied English Studies, University of Hong Kong Chau Meng Huat is Fellow in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. Michael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language and Intercultural Communication at Tokyo University, Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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