Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027221383 ISBN 13: 9789027221384

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1993

Synopsis

Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and Written Discourse” contains contributions by Martin Warren, Mohd Dahan Hazadiah., Amy B.M. Tsui, Anna Mauranen and Susan Hunston. The next section on corpus-driven analysis “Corpus Studies: Theory and Practice” contains contributions by Gill Francis, Bill Louw, Allan Partington, Elena Tognini-Bonelli. The contributions in this section by Kirsten Malmkjær and Mona Baker deal specifically with translated text. The final third section “Text and Technology: Computational Tools” has contributions by David Coniam, Jeremy Clear, Junsaku Nakamura, Geoff Barnbrook and Margaret Allen. In spite of the specialised nature of the topics discussed and the level of sophistication with which these topcis are handled, the papers are written in a clear and accessible style and will therefore be of interest to seasoned scholars and students alike. An extensive index further enhances the value of this collection as a reference point for many of the issues that currently lie at the heart of modern linguistics enquiry.

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Focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis. The next articles are divided into three sections: spoken and written discourse; corpus studies, theory and practice; and text and technology, computational tools. Despite the specialized nature of the topics discussed and the level of sophistication with which these topics are handled, the papers are written in an accessible style and should therefore be of interest to seasoned shcolars and students alike.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027221383
• ISBN 13: 9789027221384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 373
• Editor: Baker Mona, Francis Gill, Tognini-Bonelli Elena