Web As Corpus
eBook - ePub

Web As Corpus

Theory and Practice

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Web As Corpus

Theory and Practice

About this book

Is the internet a suitable linguistic corpus? How can we use it in corpus techniques? What are the special properties that we need to be aware of? This book answers those questions. The Web is an exponentially increasing source of language and corpus linguistics data. From gigantic static information resources to user-generated Web 2.0 content, the breadth and depth of information available is breathtaking – and bewildering. This book explores the theory and practice of the "web as corpus". It looks at the most common tools and methods used and features a plethora of examples based on the author's own teaching experience. This book also bridges the gap between studies in computational linguistics, which emphasize technical aspects, and studies in corpus linguistics, which focus on the implications for language theory and use.

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Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. TOC
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Corpus Linguistics: Basic Principles
  11. 2. The Body and the Web: An Introduction to the Web as Corpus
  12. 3. Challenging Anarchy: Web Search from a Corpus Perspective
  13. 4. Beyond Ordinary Search Engines: Concordancing the Web
  14. 5. Building and Using Comparable Web Corpora: Tools and Methods
  15. 6. Sketches of Language and Culture from Large Web Corpora
  16. 7. From Download to Upload: The Web as Corpus in the Web 2.0 Era
  17. Conclusion
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. Copyright Page