Overview
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.
- | Author: Paul Baker
- | Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
- | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0826477240
- | ISBN-13: 9780826477248
