Working with German Corpora
with a foreword by John Sinclair
Published on 21. June 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8264-8130-6 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this volume, written by Germanists from Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia, illustrate the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole and the rich diversity of work currently being undertaken. Many contributions contain new research data, and topics covered include areas as diverse as literary studies, translation studies, language learning applications, specialist registers, descriptive and critical linguistics, spoken language, historical linguistics, and corpus construction. A detailed introduction explains basic concepts, methods, and applications of corpus-based work.
Reviews / Votes
"'This volume is fascinating in itself in presenting a range of different types of corpus research. It is especially important for scholars German, both in the research findings that are reported and the development of reusable resources for other scholars. It points the way for researchers in other languages to gather material for similar volumes.' John Sinclair, from the Foreword."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8130-6 (9780826481306)
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Person
Bill Dodd is Reader in German Studies in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham, and has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
Content
Foreword; John Sinclair; Editor's Preface; Bill Dodd; Note on language corpora and software; Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Bill Dodd; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: The revelavance of corpora to German studies; Bill Dodd; 2. Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlaverwandtschaften as a model case; Gordon J.A. Burgess; 3. When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German reunification; Bill Dodd; 4. German be- verns revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency; Piklu Gupta; 5. A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions; Randall L. Jones; 6. Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in. German-Engliah translation; Dorothy Kenny; 7. 'Die schine Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder; Ann Lawson; 8. Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management in German; April Mackison; 9. The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in con Text Project; Peter Roe; 10. An electronic corpus of Early New High German; Jonathan West; 11. Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence; Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen; 12. Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s; Nic Witton; Index.