Beschreibung:
Hans Lindquist is professor of English Linguistics at Malmo University, Sweden. He has taught English in Switzerland, the United States, Japan, New Zealand and the Gambia and co-edited volumes on translation theory, the major varieties of English, and corpora and grammaticalization.
An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.
1: Corpus linguistics; 2: Counting, calculating and annotating; 3: Looking for lexis; 4: Checking colligations and collocations; 5: Finding phrases; 6: Metaphor and metonymy; 7: Grammar; 8: Male and female; 9: Language change; 10: Corpus linguistics in cyberspace; Further reading