Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions. In this analysis, media style appears as a dynamic concept which is highly sensitive to innovative approaches towards making news not only informative but also entertaining to read.
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora to materials writers, course designers and language teachers and considers the needs of the learner in relation to authentic data.
Corpus Linguistics Around the World (Language & Computers S.) (Language & Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics)
The book is a selection of papers presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in March 2003. It contains 17 contributions covering a wide variety of languages: Basque, English and it's dialects, Danish, French, Maltese, Dutch, German, Slovene,
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century.
Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse
This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpuslinguistics techniques through new tools and approaches. The text includes selected papers from the Fifth North American Symposium, hosted by theLinguistics Department at Montclair State University in Montclair New Jersey in May 2004.
