Introduction

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Introduction

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

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Abstract

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
Title of host publication	Corpus Linguistics
Editors	Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Wolfgang Teubert
Pages	1-37
Number of pages	37
Volume	1
Publication status	Published - 14 Jun 2007

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Name	Critical Concepts in Linguistics
Publisher	Routledge

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corpora—large collections
electronic text

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