Full Description
This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the Flagstaff school: a careful procedure for language corpora collection with special consideration for corpus size, representativeness, sampling and systematic analysis; the use of computer programming abilities that allow the posing of corpus-based research questions never asked before; and a strong emphasis on the combination of quantitative methods based on sound and innovative statistical procedures complemented with comprehensive qualitative functional analyses of the language. This volume has been edited in honor of Douglas Biber, a pioneer of the American school of corpus-based research.
Contents
1. List of Contributors; 2. Foreword (by McCarthy, Michael); 3. Introduction; 4. Douglas Biber and the Flagstaff School of corpus-based research: An introduction (by Cortes, Viviana); 5. A corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation in teacher and student presentations in university settings (by Csomay, Eniko); 6. Telephone interactions: A multidimensional comparison (by Friginal, Eric); 7. On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity (by Gray, Bethany); 8. Telling by omission: Hedging and negative evaluation in academic recommendation letters (by Albakry, Mohammed); 9. Corpora, context, and language teachers: Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus project (by Urzua, Alfredo); 10. The challenge of constructing a reliable word list: An exploratory corpus-based analysis of lexical variability in introductory Psychology textbooks (by Miller, Don); 11. Corpus linguistics and New Englishes (by Balasubramanian, Chandrika); 12. Investigating textual borrowing in academic discourse: The need for a corpus-based approach (by Keck, Casey); 13. Situating lexical bundles in the formulaic language spectrum: Origins and functional analysis developments (by Cortes, Viviana); 14. Index
