Full Description
Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn between them. This book showcases a variety of current corpus-based approaches to the study of grammar and discourse, and makes a case for seeing grammar and discourse as fundamentally inter-related phenomena. The book features contributions from leading experts in cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, critical discourse studies, genre and register analysis, phraseology, language learning and teaching, languages for specific purposes, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics and text linguistics. An essential reference point for future research, Corpora, Grammar and Discourse has been edited in honour of Susan Hunston, whose own work has consistently pushed at the boundaries of corpus-based research on grammar and discourse for over three decades.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of Contributors; 3. Editors' foreword; 4. Introduction: Corpora, grammar, and discourse analysis: Recent trends, current challenges (by Groom, Nicholas); 5. Chapter 1. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis (by Thompson, Geoff); 6. Chapter 2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge (by Romer, Ute); 7. Chapter 3. "Hugh's across all that": Some changing uses of prepositions (by Francis, Gill); 8. Chapter 4. The textual functions of lexis (by Stubbs, Michael); 9. Chapter 5. Examining associations between lexis and textual position in hard news stories, or according to a study by... (by Hoey, Michael); 10. Chapter 6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because ...: Organisational frameworks across modes, registers, and genres (by Warren, Martin); 11. Chapter 7. Probably most important of all: Importance markers in academic and popular history articles (by Bondi, Marina); 12. Chapter 8. Chatting in the academy: Informality in spoken academic discourse (by Buttery, Paula); 13. Chapter 9. General extenders in learner language (by Aijmer, Karin); 14. Chapter 10. Language description and language learning: The pedagogic corpus and learners as researchers (by Willis, Dave); 15. Chapter 11. "What we contrarians already know": Individual and communal aspects of attitudinal identity (by Bednarek, Monika); 16. Chapter 12. Does Britain need any more foreign doctors? Inter-analyst consistency and corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis (by Baker, Paul); 17. Publications by Susan Hunston; 18. Author Index; 19. Subject Index
