Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book
Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book
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2006-01
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Tony McEnery;R. Xiao;Y. Tono
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Tony McEnery;R. Xiao;Y. Tono
在过去的二十年里，基于语料库的语言分析和语言教学方法逐渐受到重视。本书旨在使读者了解基于语料库的语言研究的最新进展。与现有的语料库语言学入门书籍相比，《基于语料库的语言研究》在许多方面都是独一无二的。首先，这是一本涵盖“如何”和“为什么”的书。在探讨“如何”时，我们显然必须把重点放在目前可用的具体索引包和语料库上。然而，我们的目标是包含一系列的语料库和软件包，因此希望抵消由于语料库被撤回或软件根本改变而导致的任何问题。这是“如何”的重点，这在很大程度上使这本书脱颖而出，从其他可用的卷。本书包括六个案例研究，每个案例都使用特定的工具探索一个特定的研究问题。这是读者学习如何做语料库语言学的地方，因为使用相关包调查数据的过程是使用文本和屏幕截图一步一步地阐述出来的。因此，每个案例研究结束时，语料库已被引入，读者已经学会了如何使用检索包和一些研究问题进行了探讨。然后鼓励读者使用相同的语料库数据，工具和技术探索相关的研究问题。在解释“如何”的同时，这本书也谈到了“为什么”。虽然我们可能希望读者参考其他关于语料库语言学的书籍，但我们希望这本书，出于两个不同的原因，探索人们可以用语料库数据做什么以及为什么要这样做。首先，很明显，如果我们希望读者能够在读过这本书后“成为”一名语料库语言学家，我们显然必须解释基于语料库的研究的基本原理，并运用案例分析的方法来说明语料库语言学的价值和相关软件包的特点。第二，我们希望本书比以往的语料库语言学书籍更紧密地联系语言学理论。我们的目标是随着本书的进展，将研究问题和理论与语料库语言学结合起来，并增加其深度和强度。其次，这本书涉及一系列使用语料库数据的方法，这使它不同于现有的语料库语言学书籍，每个案例研究都集中在使用语料库数据的主要方法上，而很少或根本不关注其他方法。在阅读完本卷后，读者有望了解何时以及如何将这些方法与其他方法联合收割机相结合。最后，这是一本比现有语料库书籍更专注于多语言语料库语言学的书。虽然本卷主要涉及英语语料库语言学，但我们也涵盖多语言语料库语言学的问题，并有一个案例研究侧重于英语以外的语言。
The corpus-based approach to linguistic analysis and language teaching has come to prominence over the past two decades. This book seeks to bring readers up to date with the latest developments in corpus-based language studies. In comparison with the existing introductory books in corpus linguistics, Corpus-based Language Studies is unique in a number of ways. First, this is a book which covers the 'how to' as well as the 'why'. In approaching 'how to', we obviously have to focus on specific concordance packages and corpora which are currently available. However, our aim is to embrace a range of corpora and packages, hence hopefully offsetting any problems due to corpora being withdrawn or software radically changed. It is the 'how to' focus which in large part makes this book stand out from other available volumes. This book includes six case studies, each exploring a particular research question using specific tools. This is where the reader learns how to do corpus linguistics, as the process of investigating the data using the package(s) concerned is spelt out step by step, using text and screenshots. Thus by the end of each case study, a corpus has been introduced, the reader has learnt how to use a retrieval package and some research questions have been explored. Readers are then encouraged to explore a related research question using the same corpus data, tools and techniques. As well as explaining 'how to', the book also addresses 'why'. While we may expect the reader to consult other books on corpus linguistics, we want this book, for two distinct reasons, to explore what one may do with corpus data and why one should want to do it. Firstly, and obviously, if we want the reader to be able to 'become' a corpus linguist having read the book, we clearly have to explain the rationale for corpus-based studies, and to use case studies both to exemplify the worth of corpus linguistics as well as the features of the packages concerned. Secondly, we want this book to tie in much more closely with linguistic theory than previous books in corpus linguistics have done. Our goal is to engage research questions and theory with corpus linguistics with an increasing depth and intensity as the book progresses. Second, this is a book which engages with a range of approaches to the use of corpus data, which makes it different from existing books in corpus linguistics, with each case study focusing on a major approach to the use of corpus data while paying little or no attention to other approaches. After reading this volume, readers are expected to understand when and how to combine these approaches with other methodologies. Finally, this is a book which is more focused on multilingual corpus linguistics than available corpus books. While this volume is concerned mainly with English corpus linguistics, we also cover issues in multilingual corpus linguistics, and have one case study focusing on a language other than English.