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The contributions to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide range of areas in linguistics. Corpora can be used as models of human linguistic experience, and the contributors demonstrate that there is ample scope for integrating such models into the descriptions of discourse, grammar, and meaning. Continually improving technological development facilitates the design of larger and more comprehensive corpora documenting language use in a multitude of genres, styles and modes, even starting to include visual aspects. Software to investigate these data also becomes increasingly powerful and more refined. The sixteen original articles in this volume cover substantial ground on both the theoretical as well as applied levels. Having such data and software resources at their disposal, the contributing researchers rethink the long discussed interplay between language system and use from various angles, considering socio-cultural and cognitive involvement and representation, with synchronic as well as diachronic perspectives in view. These theories and quantitative / qualitative methods are applied to a range of topics from language acquisition and teaching to literature and politics. All of the authors in this volume reveal the profound and leading impact that Mike Stubbs' work has continued to contribute to the field of corpus-based description of language structure, use and function.
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Language, People, Numbers
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS: STUDIES IN PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS No 64
edited by Christian Mair Charles F. Meyer Nelleke Oostdijk
Language, People, Numbers Corpus Linguistics and Society
Edited by
Andrea Gerbig and Oliver Mason
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008
Cover design: Pier Post Online access is included in print subscriptions: see www.rodopi.nl The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of "ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence". ISBN: 978-90-420-2350-5 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 Printed in The Netherlands
On the occasion of Michael W. Stubbs’ 60 th birthday
Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................... 3 Oliver Mason and Andrea Gerbig Contributing authors .......................................................................................... 6 Michael W. Stubbs – a select bibliography ....................................................... 9 Michael Stubbs: a theoretician of applied linguistics ....................................... 15 Susan Hunston Borrowed ideas................................................................................................. 21 John Sinclair How 'systemic' is a large corpus of English? ................................................... 43 Robert de Beaugrande Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics ......................................... 61 Wolfgang Teubert Developing language education policy in Europe – and searching for theory .................................................................................. 85 Michael Byram The semiotic patterning of Cædmon's Hymn as a 'hypersign' ......................... 99 Wolfgang Kühlwein Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics 'with critical notes' ......................................................................................... 129 David A. Reibel Travelogues in time and space: a diachronic and intercultural genre study...................................................... 157 Andrea Gerbig An extended view of extended lexical units: tracking development an