Meaningful Texts - (Corpus and Discourse) by Geoff Barnbrook & Pernilla Danielsson (Paperback)

About the Book

Reflects the growing influence of corpus linguistics on areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis and language teaching.

Book Synopsis

This book reflects the growing influence of corpus linguistics in a variety of areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis, and language teaching. The book is divided into two sections, the first on monolingual corpora and the second addressing multilingual corpora. The range of languages covered includes English, French and German, but also Chinese and some of the less widely known and less widely explored central and eastern European language. The chapters discuss: the relationship between methodology and theory; the importance of computers for linking textual segments, providing teaching tools, or translating texts; the significance of training corpora and human annotation; how corpus linguistic investigations can shed light on social and cultural aspects of language.

Review Quotes

""...the articles are interesting to read and methods introduced are applicable to different phenomena...the book can be recommended for those who are interested in corpus-based linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, especially if their research is concerned with Slavonic or Baltic languages." -- The Linguist List, May 2005" --The Linguist List

About the Author

Geoff Barnbrook is Lecturer in English Language in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Pernilla Danielsson is Academic Director of the Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham. Michaela Mahlberg is Associate Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the The University of Nottingham, UK.