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An Introduction To Corpus Linguistics

by Graeme Kennedy

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 This text is a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus linguistics, and provides a systematic overview of pre-electronic and electronic corpora of all kinds.
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The Communicative Competence Of Young Children - A Modular Approach

by Susan (University Of Canterbury, New Zealand) Foster-Cohen

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 How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
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Conversational Routines In English - Convention And Creativity

by Karin Aijmer

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 It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as ''thank you'', ''sorry'', would you mind?'' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication.This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering.The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989).An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.
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Conversational Routines In English - Convention And Creativity

by Karin Aijmer

88,76€ + 10% CARD

 It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as ''thank you'', ''sorry'', would you mind?'' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication.This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering.The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989).An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.
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Introduction To Corpus Linguistics

by Graeme Kennedy

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 This text is a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus linguistics, and provides a systematic overview of pre-electronic and electronic corpora of all kinds.
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Introduction To Corpus Linguistics

by Graeme Kennedy

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 This text is a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus linguistics, and provides a systematic overview of pre-electronic and electronic corpora of all kinds.
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Intonation In Text And Discourse - Beginnings, Middles And Ends

by Anne Wichmann

107,31€ + 10% CARD

 It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener? Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts. It examines the role of intonation in clarifying the relationship between successive utterances, from close cohesive ties (''middles'') to major breaks for a new topic (''ends'' and ''beginnings''). The book is concerned chiefly with the intonational structuring of read or prepared monologue, but also devotes a chapter to current developments in the analysis of intonation in conversation. It describes not only how intonation is used to organise systematic turn-taking but also how it can signal greater or lesser degrees of co-operativeness. It addresses finally the complex issue of attitudinal intonation - the elusive ''tone of voice''. The first book on discourse intonation to deal with such a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data, Intonation in Text and Discourse will be of great interest to students, lecturers and researchers of intonation and all aspects of spoken discourse.
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Intonation In Text And Discourse - Beginnings, Middles And Ends

by Anne Wichmann

107,31€ + 10% CARD

 It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener? Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts. It examines the role of intonation in clarifying the relationship between successive utterances, from close cohesive ties (''middles'') to major breaks for a new topic (''ends'' and ''beginnings''). The book is concerned chiefly with the intonational structuring of read or prepared monologue, but also devotes a chapter to current developments in the analysis of intonation in conversation. It describes not only how intonation is used to organise systematic turn-taking but also how it can signal greater or lesser degrees of co-operativeness. It addresses finally the complex issue of attitudinal intonation - the elusive ''tone of voice''. The first book on discourse intonation to deal with such a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data, Intonation in Text and Discourse will be of great interest to students, lecturers and researchers of intonation and all aspects of spoken discourse.
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Variation In English - Multi-Dimensional Studies

by Douglas Biber e Susan Conrad

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 Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor Broad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics. Variation in English- Multi-Dimensional Studies provides both a comprehensive view into a relatively new technique for studying language, and a diverse, exciting collection of studies of variation in English. The first part of the book provides an explanation of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis, a research technique for studying language variation. MD is a corpus-based approach developed by Doug Biber that facilitates large-scale studies of language variation and the investigation of research questions that were previously intractable. The second part of the book contains studies that apply Biber''s original MD analysis of English to new domains. These studies cover the historical evolution of English; specialized domains such as medical writing and oral proficiency testing; and dialect variation, including gender and British/American. The third part of the book contains studies that conduct new MD analyses, covering adult/child language differences, 18th century speech and writing, and discourse complexity. Readers of this book will become familiar with the analytical techniques of multi-dimensional analysis, with its applicability to a wide variety of language issues, and with the findings of important studies previously published in diverse journals as well as new studies appearing for the first time.
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Variation In English - Multi-Dimensional Studies

by Douglas Biber e Susan Conrad

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor Broad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics. Variation in English- Multi-Dimensional Studies provides both a comprehensive view into a relatively new technique for studying language, and a diverse, exciting collection of studies of variation in English. The first part of the book provides an explanation of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis, a research technique for studying language variation. MD is a corpus-based approach developed by Doug Biber that facilitates large-scale studies of language variation and the investigation of research questions that were previously intractable. The second part of the book contains studies that apply Biber''s original MD analysis of English to new domains. These studies cover the historical evolution of English; specialized domains such as medical writing and oral proficiency testing; and dialect variation, including gender and British/American. The third part of the book contains studies that conduct new MD analyses, covering adult/child language differences, 18th century speech and writing, and discourse complexity. Readers of this book will become familiar with the analytical techniques of multi-dimensional analysis, with its applicability to a wide variety of language issues, and with the findings of important studies previously published in diverse journals as well as new studies appearing for the first time.
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Anaphora Resolution

by Ruslan Mitkov

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challengesof natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting researchdevoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with anup-to-date survey of the field, including the author’s own contributions.A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution - computationallinguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics,discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducingbasic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods andapproaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions.It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphorasystems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluationtechniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchersin this particular area of computational linguistics.Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLPsystem, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia andindustry.
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Anaphora Resolution

by Ruslan Mitkov

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 Teaching computers to solve language problems is one of the major challengesof natural language processing. There is a large amount of interesting researchdevoted to this field. This book fills an existing gap in the literature with anup-to-date survey of the field, including the author’s own contributions.A number of different fields overlap in anaphora resolution - computationallinguistics, natural language processing (NLP), grammar, semantics, pragmatics,discourse analysis and artificial intelligence. This book begins by introducingbasic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods andapproaches, recent developments and applications, and future directions.It addresses various issues related to the practical implementation of anaphorasystems, such as rules employed, algorithms implemented or evaluationtechniques used. This is an ideal reference book for students and researchersin this particular area of computational linguistics.Since anaphora resolution is vital for the development of any practical NLPsystem, the book will be of interest to readers from both academia andindustry.
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Learner English On Computer

by Sylviane Granger

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 The first book of its kind, Learner English on Computer is intended to provide linguists, students of linguistics and modern languages, and ELT professionals with a highly accessible and comprehensive introduction to the new and rapidly-expanding field of corpus-based research into learner language. Edited by the founder and co-ordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), the book contains articles on all aspects of corpus compilation, design and analysis. The book is divided into three main sections; in Part I, the first chapter provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT. The second chapter reviews the software tools which are currently available for analysing learner language and contains useful examples of how they can be used. Part 2 contains eight case studies in which computer learner corpora are analysed for various lexical, discourse and grammatical features. The articles contain a wide range of methodologies with broad general application. The chapters in Part 3 look at how Computer Learner Corpus (CLC) based studies can help improve pedagogical tools: EFL grammars, dictionaries, writing textbooks and electronic tools. Implications for classroom methodology are also discussed. The comprehensive scope of this volume should be invaluable to applied linguists and corpus linguists as well as to would-be learner corpus builders and analysts who wish to discover more about a new, exciting and fast-growing field of research.
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Learner English On Computer

by Sylviane Granger

107,31€ + 10% CARD

 The first book of its kind, Learner English on Computer is intended to provide linguists, students of linguistics and modern languages, and ELT professionals with a highly accessible and comprehensive introduction to the new and rapidly-expanding field of corpus-based research into learner language. Edited by the founder and co-ordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), the book contains articles on all aspects of corpus compilation, design and analysis. The book is divided into three main sections; in Part I, the first chapter provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT. The second chapter reviews the software tools which are currently available for analysing learner language and contains useful examples of how they can be used. Part 2 contains eight case studies in which computer learner corpora are analysed for various lexical, discourse and grammatical features. The articles contain a wide range of methodologies with broad general application. The chapters in Part 3 look at how Computer Learner Corpus (CLC) based studies can help improve pedagogical tools: EFL grammars, dictionaries, writing textbooks and electronic tools. Implications for classroom methodology are also discussed. The comprehensive scope of this volume should be invaluable to applied linguists and corpus linguists as well as to would-be learner corpus builders and analysts who wish to discover more about a new, exciting and fast-growing field of research.
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Communicative Competence Of Young Children - A Modular Approach

by Susan Foster-Cohen

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
ENGLISH

Communicative Competence Of Young Children - A Modular Approach

by Susan Foster-Cohen

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
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Anaphora Resolution

by Ruslan Mitkov

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 How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? This book seeks to answer these kind of questions. It begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, developments and applications and then future directions.
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An Introduction To Corpus Linguistics

by Graeme Kennedy

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 This text is a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus linguistics, and provides a systematic overview of pre-electronic and electronic corpora of all kinds.
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Learner English On Computer

by Sylviane Granger

~~109,49€~~ 76,64€ 30% OFF

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 This work provides an introduction to the field of corpus-based research into learner language. It provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining its links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT.
ENGLISH

The Communicative Competence Of Young Children - A Modular Approach

by Susan Foster-Cohen

~~82,45€~~ 57,72€ 30% OFF

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 How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
ENGLISH

Variation In English - Multi-Dimensional Studies

by Douglas Biber e Susan Conrad

~~82,45€~~ 57,72€ 30% OFF

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 Multi-dimensional studies (MD) is a statistical approach to language variation. This book shows how MD studies can be used to investigate research questions in a number of linguistic core subjects, including corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and studies of literary style.
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Conversational Routines In English - Convention And Creativity

by Karin (University Of Gothenburg) Aijmer

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 This text provides a comprehensive description of expressions in conversation, such as apologizing, thanking, accepting and refusing, drawing upon original research data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.
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Learner English On Computer

by Sylviane Granger

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Conversational Routines In English - Convention And Creativity

by Karin (University Of Gothenburg) Aijmer

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