Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium

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Author: Rita C Simpson-Vlach

ISBN-10: 0472097628

ISBN-13: 9780472097623

Category: Linguistics & Semiotics

The first symposium in North America to address corpus linguistics was sponsored by the University of Michigan's English Language Institute in 1999. Corpus Linguistics in North America is a collection of selected and revised papers from this conference. The papers address the "states of art" in corpus linguistics in North America by focusing on work that is descriptive of languages, often with implications for pedagogy and materials development.\ Corpus Linguistics in North America is divided...

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Highlights from the first Corpus Linguistics conference in North America

Introduction: North American Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics at the Millennium1The International Corpus of English: Progress and Prospects17Collaboration between Corpus Linguists and Digital Librarians for the MICASE Web Search Interface32Representing Spoken Language in University Settings: The Design and Construction of the Spoken Component of the T2K-SWAL Corpus48Creating and Using Multimillion-Word Corpora from Web-Based Newspapers58Concordance Programs for Corpus Linguistics76Using Corpus-Based Methods to Investigate Grammar and Use: Some Case Studies on the Use of Verbs in English101Discovering the Usual with Corpora: The Case of Remember116Discourse Management and New-Episode Flags in MICASE145Reflexive Academic Talk: Observations from MICASE165Rethinking French Grammar for Pedagogy: The Contribution of Spoken Corpora179The Lexical Phrase as Pedagogical Tool: Teaching Disagreement Strategies in ESL195Writing Development among Elementary Students: Corpus-Based Perspectives211Glossary for Part 1227Contributors233Subject Index235Author Index239