From Data to Evidence in English Language Research
Published on 17. January 2019
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-90-04-39064-5 (ISBN)
Description
From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
21 s/w Tabellen
21 Tables, black and white; 108 Line drawings, color
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39064-5 (9789004390645)
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Carla Suhr, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at that university. She is a co-compiler of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing and has published on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.
Terttu Nevalainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is Professor of English Philology, the Director of the VARIENG Research Unit, and a co-compiler of the historical Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, with well over 100 related publications.
Irma Taavitsainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Professor Emerita of English Philology, Deputy Director of VARIENG, and a co-compiler of the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, has published extensively on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.
Contributors are: Lieselotte Anderwald, Helen Baker, David Brett, Mark Davies, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Turo Hiltunen, Mark Kaunisto, Hanna Kermes, Ashraf Khamis, Thomas Kohnen, Mikko Laitinen, Alexander Lakaw, Daniela Landert, Magnus Levin, Tony McEnery, Terttu Nevalainen, Antonio Pinna, Antionette Renouf, Juhani Rudanko, Tanja Ruetten, Gerold Schneider, Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Elke Teich, Jukka Tyrkkoe.
Terttu Nevalainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is Professor of English Philology, the Director of the VARIENG Research Unit, and a co-compiler of the historical Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, with well over 100 related publications.
Irma Taavitsainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Professor Emerita of English Philology, Deputy Director of VARIENG, and a co-compiler of the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, has published extensively on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.
Contributors are: Lieselotte Anderwald, Helen Baker, David Brett, Mark Davies, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Turo Hiltunen, Mark Kaunisto, Hanna Kermes, Ashraf Khamis, Thomas Kohnen, Mikko Laitinen, Alexander Lakaw, Daniela Landert, Magnus Levin, Tony McEnery, Terttu Nevalainen, Antonio Pinna, Antionette Renouf, Juhani Rudanko, Tanja Ruetten, Gerold Schneider, Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Elke Teich, Jukka Tyrkkoe.
Content
Preface
Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data
?Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen
Part 1: Evidence from "Big Data"
2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics
?Antoinette Renouf
3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design
?Mark Davies
4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English
?Lieselotte Anderwald
5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English
?Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko
Part 2: Evidence from "Rich Data"?
6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data
?Thomas Kohnen
7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist's Perspective
?Tanja Ruetten
8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions
?Daniela Landert
9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence
?Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider
Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data?
10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor
?Tony McEnery and Helen Baker
11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English
?Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich
12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets
?Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkoe
13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics
?David Brett and Antonio Pinna
14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach
?Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw
Indexe
Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data
?Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen
Part 1: Evidence from "Big Data"
2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics
?Antoinette Renouf
3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design
?Mark Davies
4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English
?Lieselotte Anderwald
5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English
?Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko
Part 2: Evidence from "Rich Data"?
6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data
?Thomas Kohnen
7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist's Perspective
?Tanja Ruetten
8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions
?Daniela Landert
9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence
?Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider
Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data?
10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor
?Tony McEnery and Helen Baker
11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English
?Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich
12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets
?Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkoe
13 Words (don't come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics
?David Brett and Antonio Pinna
14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach
?Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw
Indexe