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Corpora in Applied Linguistics
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This book discusses methods in corpus linguistics: interpreting concordance lines, applications of corpora in applied linguistics, and more.Abstract:
Corpus linguistics is leading to the development of theories about language which challenge existing orthodoxies in applied linguistics. However, there are also many questions which should be examined and debated: how big should a corpus be? Is the data from a corpus reliable? What are its applications for language teaching? Corpora in Applied Linguistics exams these and other questions related to this emerging field. It discusses these important issues and explores the techniques of investigating a corpus, as well as demonstrating the application of corpora in a wide variety of fields. It also outlines the impact corpus linguistics is having on how languages are taught in the classroom and how it is informing language teaching materials and dictionaries. It makes a superb and accessible introduction to corpus linguistics and is a must read for anyone interested in corpus linguistics and its impact on applied linguistics.read more
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A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press
TL;DR: The authors discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts, based on the analysis of a 140-million-word corpus of British news articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants.
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Is There an "Academic Vocabulary"?
Ken Hyland,Polly Tse +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the value of the term by using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to explore the distribution of its 570 word families in a corpus of 3.3 million words from a range of academic disciplines and genres.
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From key words to key semantic domains
TL;DR: The combination of the key words and key domains methods is shown to allow macroscopic analysis to inform the microscopic level (focussing on the use of a particular linguistic feature) and thereby suggesting those linguistic features which should be investigated further.
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Fleeing, Sneaking, Flooding A Corpus Analysis of Discursive Constructions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005
Costas Gabrielatos,Paul Baker +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the discursive construction of refugees and asylum seekers in a 140 million-word corpus of UK press articles published between 1996 and 2005, and pointed out negative categories of representation, the existence and development of nonsensical terms (e.g., illegal refugee), and media confusion and conflation of definitions of the four terms under examination.
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Perspectives on Technology in Learning and Teaching Languages
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and discuss four key issues arising from the recent technology-related literature (the status of CALL, its theoretical grounding, its cultural embeddedness, and its effectiveness).
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Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching
TL;DR: Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology and focuses on information that usually cannot be found in dictionaries, grammars, language textbooks or other resources but which the study of corpus data makes available.