{"product_id":"exploring-english-with-online-corpora-9781137438096","title":"Exploring English with Online Corpora","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wendy Anderson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: English Literature\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English as a Second Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an excellent introductory book and a must-have text on any course in corpus linguistics\/applied linguistics. It covers a huge amount of ground in a very accessible way addressing key issues and providing relevant and interesting tasks to engage and support the novice corpus linguist.\" - \u003cb\u003eDr Bróna Murphy, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Edinburgh, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This book covers a comprehensive range of topics in the area, allowing the reader to consider corpora, and language, from different perspectives and for different uses. The authors regularly refer to practical examples and include accessible activities, while also accounting for key theoretical aspects of the field.\" \u003cb\u003e- Dr Robert Baird, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e University of Southampton, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eExploring English with Online Corpora\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential guide to using digital resources in the study of English language and linguistics. From vocabulary and grammar to discourse and pronunciation, this introductory textbook helps readers to understand the wide range of resources that are available, and to select the ones that suit their needs. \u003cbr\u003eThis new edition of \u003ci\u003eExploring English with Online Corpora\u003c\/i\u003e has been fully updated and revised to allow readers to take advantage of new online corpora. The second edition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eintroduces additional analysis tools, and is packed with new examples and tasks to take students step-by-step through typical corpus analyses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edemonstrates how to use online corpora and text analysis software to understand different aspects of language, and to formulate and test research hypotheses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edraws exclusively on freely-available online corpora, allowing students to independently explore the use of corpora in different settings. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003ePerfect for students of corpus linguistics, this engaging and accessible guide opens the door to an ever-expanding world of online resources. \u003cbr\u003eWendy Anderson is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Between 2004 and 2008 she was a researcher for the Scottish Corpus of Texts \u0026amp; Speech and Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing projects. More recently, she has led two Digital Humanities projects: 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' and 'Metaphor in the Curriculum'. \u003cbr\u003eJohn Corbett is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Macau, China and a Visiting Professor in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. He co-directed the AHRC-funded projects, the Scottish Corpus of Texts \u0026amp; Speech and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083623522455,"sku":"9781137438096","price":4978.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781137438096.webp?v=1769201280","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exploring-english-with-online-corpora-9781137438096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}