Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics
：Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
( Studies in Corpus Linguistics )
Publication subTitle ：Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
Publication series ： Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Author： Viviana Cortes Eniko Csomay
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9789027269058
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027203748
Subject： H08 applied linguistics
Keyword： Applied linguisticsCorpus linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the Flagstaff school: a careful procedure for language corpora collection with special consideration for corpus size, representativeness, sampling and systematic analysis; the use of computer programming abilities that allow the posing of corpus-based research questions never asked before; and a strong emphasis on the combination of quantitative methods based on sound and innovative statistical procedures complemented with comprehensive qualitative functional analyses of the language. This volume has been edited in honor of Douglas Biber, a pioneer of the American school of corpus-based research.