Hans Lindquist is professor of English Linguistics at Malm� University, Sweden. He has taught English in Switzerland, the United States, Japan, New Zealand and the Gambia and co-edited volumes on translation theory, the major varieties of English, and corpora and grammaticalization.
Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of Languages at Linneaus University. His research interests include change and variation in English grammar and phraseology, pragmatics and translation studies.
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English is a practical
textbook that provides a vivid introduction to the field of corpus
linguistics and the description of English... For anyone looking to
do some hands-on investigations on language using existing corpora,
this book can only be highly recommended. This textbook is a
valuable addition to existing literature on corpus-linguistic
methods of research and contributes greatly to making corpus
linguistics more approachable to students.--Stephanie Ullmann
"Corpus Pragmatics"
The updated edition of Corpus Linguistics and the Description of
English makes an outstanding introductory book on corpus
linguistics. It covers the most important basics of corpus
linguistics methodology in a highly accessible way, and illustrates
the applications of corpus linguistic analysis in some of the most
prominent areas of English language description in a nontechnical
manner. The study questions, hands-on exercises, and further
reading provided at the end of each chapter dramatically improve
its suitability as a textbook for a first course on corpus
linguistics for undergraduate and master's students in English
language and literature. Readers of the first edition will also
find the new edition decidedly superior, with its new coverage of
social media, DIY corpora, and ethical concerns, new materials on
metonymy and pragmatics, comprehensive information on new corpora,
and numerous updated example investigations, exercises, and study
questions.--Xiaofei Lu "Journal of English Linguistics"
Two generations of corpus linguists teamed up for this edition, and
the authors' profound expertise in research and teaching is clearly
in evidence throughout, both in the concise discussion of key
issues and the thoughtful methodology of exercises. Through its
systematic structure, the book can easily and profitably be used as
a week-by-week semester textbook or, alternatively, provides
self-contained study units in specialist seminars that seek to
integrate a corpus perspective.--Stefan Diemer, Trier University of
Applied Sciences "ICAME, Volume 44, 2020"
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