Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse (Corpus and Discourse) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350385972 ISBN 13: 9781350385979

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use. The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.

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About the Authors

Anna Cermakova is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK and EdTech consultant for WiKIT, AS.

Hilde Hasselgċrd is Professor of English Language at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Markéta Malá is Associate Professor of English Language at Charles University, Czech Republic.

Denisa Šebestová is Lecturer at Charles University, Czech Republic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350385972
• ISBN 13: 9781350385979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Cermakova Anna