What is it about?
The first really practical introduction to corpus linguistics. While most other introductions to the field tend to be more theoretical and generally assume that you already have access to some suitable data, this book takes the reader step-by-step first through some theoretical issues, but soon moves on to illustrating the nature of electronic texts, how to collect and bring them into the right form(s) for analysis, to analyse them in various ways, and finally concludes by showing how such data can be further enriched for more sophisticated types of analysis and visualisation/presentation.
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Why is it important?
As stated above, the book is the first truly practical introduction to the field of corpus linguistics.
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The book is based on many years of working in corpus linguistics, as well as experience in teaching often fairly technophobic or computer-illiterate students of linguistics the intricacies of carrying out highly qualitative work on large quantities of data in a gentle manner.
Professor Martin Weisser
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This page is a summary of: Practical Corpus Linguistics, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781119180180.
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