Corpora—large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically—provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora are now routinely used in the following fields: The production of dictionaries and other reference materials; The development of aids to translation; Language teaching materials; The investigation of ideologies and cultural assumptions; Natural language processing; and The investigation of all aspects of linguistic behaviour, including vocabulary, grammar and pragmatics.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | London (UK) |
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Number of pages | 2460 |
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Publication status | Published - 2007 |
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Name | Critical concepts in linguistics |
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Publisher | Routledge |
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