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A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

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Editors:
  1. Magali Paquot

    1. FNRS Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Language and Communication Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  2. Stefan Th. Gries

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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  • Covers all relevant aspects of corpus linguistics in chapters that are structured for cohesion and reader accessibility
  • Includes a practical and user-friendly introduction to advanced statistics with R
  • Offers chapters on topics ranging from corpus design, method and analyses to reporting results for publication

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Corpus Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Corpus Compilation

      • Annelie Ädel
      Pages 3-24

    3. Corpus Annotation

      • John Newman, Christopher Cox
      Pages 25-48

    4. Corpus Architecture

      • Amir Zeldes
      Pages 49-73

  3. Corpus methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Analysing Frequency Lists

      • Don Miller
      Pages 77-97

    3. Analyzing Dispersion

      • Stefan Th. Gries
      Pages 99-118

    4. Analysing Keyword Lists

      • Paul Rayson, Amanda Potts
      Pages 119-139

    5. Analyzing Co-occurrence Data

      • Stefan Th. Gries, Philip Durrant
      Pages 141-159

    6. Analyzing Concordances

      • Stefanie Wulff, Paul Baker
      Pages 161-179

    7. Programming for Corpus Linguistics

      • Laurence Anthony
      Pages 181-207

  4. Corpus types

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Diachronic Corpora

      • Kristin Davidse, Hendrik De Smet
      Pages 211-233

    3. Spoken Corpora

      • Ulrike Gut
      Pages 235-256

    4. Parallel Corpora

      • Marie-Aude Lefer
      Pages 257-282

    5. Learner Corpora

      • Gaëtanelle Gilquin
      Pages 283-303

    6. Child-Language Corpora

      • Sabine Stoll, Robert Schikowski
      Pages 305-327

    7. Web Corpora

      • Andrew Kehoe
      Pages 329-351

    8. Multimodal Corpora

      • Dawn Knight, Svenja Adolphs
      Pages 353-371
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About this book

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics. It features a range of basic and advanced approaches, methods and techniques in corpus linguistics, from corpus compilation principles to quantitative data analyses. The Handbook is organized in  six Parts. Parts I to III feature chapters that discuss key issues and the know-how related to various topics around corpus design, methods and corpus types. Parts IV-V aim to offer a user-friendly introduction to the quantitative analysis of corpus data: for each statistical technique discussed, chapters provide a practical guide with R and come with supplementary online material. Part VI focuses on how to write a corpus linguistic paper and how to meta-analyze corpus linguistic research. The volume can serve as a course book as well as for individual study. It will be an essential reading for students of corpus linguistics as well as experienced researchers who want to expand their knowledge of the field.

Reviews

“It has been a true pleasure to read, especially thanks to its clear and very thoughtfully planned structure and carefully selected representative studies. Very well-edited and well-organised in its comprehensiveness, this handbook constitutes an invaluable resource both for corpus linguists and other researchers who are starting to familiarise themselves with corpora.” (Leida Maria Monaco, Corpus Pragmatics, Vol. 6, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • FNRS Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Language and Communication Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Magali Paquot

  • Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Stefan Th. Gries

About the editors

Magali Paquot is a permanent FNRS research associate at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, UCLouvain. She is co‐editor in chief of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research and a founding member of the Learner Corpus Research Association. 


Stefan Th. Gries is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Chair of English Linguistics (Corpus Linguistics with a focus on quantitative methods) at the Justus‐Liebig‐Universität Giessen (25%). He was a Visiting Chair of the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University for 5 years, held the Honorary Leibniz Professorship at the University of Leipzig, and was a Visiting Professor at multiple LSA Summer Institutes.

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