Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction - Softcover

Gries, Stefan Th.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138816280 ISBN 13: 9781138816282

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

As in its first edition, the new edition of Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R demonstrates how to process corpus-linguistic data with the open-source programming language and environment R. Geared in general towards linguists working with observational data, and particularly corpus linguists, it introduces R programming with emphasis on:

• data processing and manipulation in general;
• text processing with and without regular expressions of large bodies of textual and/or literary data, and;
• basic aspects of statistical analysis and visualization.

This book is extremely hands-on and leads the reader through dozens of small applications as well as larger case studies. Along with an array of exercise boxes and separate answer keys, the text features a didactic sequential approach in case studies by way of subsections that zoom in to every programming problem. The companion website to the book contains all relevant R code (amounting to approximately 7,000 lines of heavily commented code), most of the data sets as well as pointers to others, and a dedicated Google newsgroup. This new edition is ideal for both researchers in corpus linguistics and instructors who want to promote hands-on approaches to data in corpus linguistics courses.

About this title

About the Author

Stefan Th. Gries is Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138816280
• ISBN 13: 9781138816282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 286