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Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer Assisted Studies of Language and Culture

ISBN: 978-0-631-19512-2
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288 pages
May 1996, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures, Concordances and Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Data Conventions and Terminology.

Notes on Corpus Data and Software.

Part I: Concepts and History:.

1. Texts and Text Types.

2. British Traditions in Text Analysis: Firth, Halliday and Sinclair.

3. Institutional Linguistics: Firth, Hill and Giddens.

Part II: Text and Corpus Analysis:.

4. Baden-Powell: A Comparative Analysis of Two Short Texts.

5. Judging the Facts: An Analysis of One Text in its Institutional Context.

6. Human and Inhuman Geography: A Comparative Analysis of Two Long Texts and a Corpus.

7. Keywords, Collocations and Culture: The Analysis of Word Meanings across Corpora.

8. Towards a Modal Grammar of English: A Matter of Prolonged Fieldwork.

9. The Classic Questions.

Notes.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

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