Overview

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

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Author:   Bin Zou ,  Michael Hoey ,  Simon Smith
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.894kg
ISBN:  

9781137440020

ISBN 10:   1137440023
Pages:   203
Publication Date:   27 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword - Corpus Linguistics in China: theory, technology and pedagogy; Naixing Wei Preface Introduction; Wenzhong Li and Simon Smith 1. Lexical Priming: The Odd Case of a Psycholinguistic Theory that Generates Corpus-linguistic Hypotheses for both English and Chinese; Michael Hoey and Juan Shao 2. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Cross-linguistic Contrast of English and Chinese; Richard Xiao 3. Learning Chinese with the Sketch Engine; Adam Kilgarriff, Nicole Keng, Simon Smith 4. Patterned Distribution of Phraseologies within Text: The Case of Research Articles; Maocheng Liang 5. Corpus' Pedagogic Processing of Phraseology for EFL Teaching: A Case of Implementation; Anping He 6. A Corpus Analysis of Chinese Students' (Mis-)use of Nouns at XJTLU; Wangheng Peng 7. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Conjunctions in an EAP Teaching Context at a Sino-British University in China; Bin Zou and Wangheng Peng 8. Application of Corpus Analysis Methods to the Teaching of Advanced English Reading and Students' Textual Analysis Skills; Wang Haiping and Zheng Yuanyuan 9. An Appraisal Analysis of Reports about Chinese Military Affairs in The New York Times; Zhaoyang Mei, Ren Zhang and Baixiang Yu

Reviews

Zou, Smith, and Hoey did a great job in compiling this volume of corpus-based and corpus-driven research on Chinese, English, and EFL. ... This volume also opens many new venues of corpus-based research. ... Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts will be of great value for corpus linguists, applied linguists, EFL and CSL practitioners, as well as anyone interested in the theoretical and practical issues related to corpora. (Chunsheng Yang, LINGUIST List, linguistlist.org, March, 2016)

Zou, Smith, and Hoey did a great job in compiling this volume of corpus-based and corpus-driven research on Chinese, English, and EFL. ... This volume also opens many new venues of corpus-based research. ... Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts will be of great value for corpus linguists, applied linguists, EFL and CSL practitioners, as well as anyone interested in the theoretical and practical issues related to corpora. (Chunsheng Yang, LINGUIST List, linguistlist.org, March, 2016) The volume under review was well written regarding the issues of corpus linguistics in China. ... this book is attempt to offer the data regarding current trends of some important issues of theory, tools and applications in corpus linguistic studies in China in a unique way. ... the book is very informative and provides valuable additional insights to the growing literature on corpus linguistics, in particular, the new development in China. (Qiurong Zhao, Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 7 (1), 2016)

Author Information

Yiyan Cai, Shanghai International Studies University, China Anping He, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool, UK Nicole Keng, Coventry University in Guangzhou, China Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd., UK Wenzhong Li, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Maocheng Liang, National Research Centre forForeign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Zhaoyang Mei, The Third Military Medical University, China Wangheng Peng, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University,China Juan Shao, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Simon Smith, Coventry University, UK Wang Haiping, East China University of Political Science and Law, China Naixing Wei, Beihang University, Beijing, China Richard Xiao, Lancaster University, UK Baixiang Yu, National University of Defense Technology, China Ren Zhang, National University of Defense Technology, China Zheng Yuanyuan, Shanghai International Studies University's Xianda College, China Bin Zou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

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