Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

by Paul Baker

2021-01-09 10:38:05

? This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies includin... Read more

? This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:

*?collocations,
*?keyness
*?concordances
*?dispersion plots
*?building and annotating corpora

Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.

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Book Details

File size9 X 6 X 1 in
Print pages208
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date June 23, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780826477248
Author
Paul Baker is a research associate at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University. His research interests include endangered and minority languages, language and sexualities and corpus based a...

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