From data to evidence in English language research
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From data to evidence in English language research
(Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics, v. 83)
Brill, c2019
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Majority of the chapters originated from papers presented at the conference held in Helsinki, 19-22 Oct. 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface
Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data
Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen
Part 1: Evidence from "Big Data"
2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics
Antoinette Renouf
3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design
Mark Davies
4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English
Lieselotte Anderwald
5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English
Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko
Part 2: Evidence from "Rich Data"?
6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data
Thomas Kohnen
7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist's Perspective
Tanja Rutten
8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions
Daniela Landert
9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence
Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider
Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data?
10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor
Tony McEnery and Helen Baker
11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich
12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets
Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkoe
13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics
David Brett and Antonio Pinna
14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach
Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw
Indexe
by "Nielsen BookData"