Corpora and the changing society studies in the evolution of English

"This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the...

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Körperschaft: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Rautionaho, Paula (HerausgeberIn), Nurmi, Arja (HerausgeberIn), Klemola, Juhani (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2020
Schriftenreihe:Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL) volume 96
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Zusammenfassung:"This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies"--
Beschreibung:Based on papers presented at the 39th ICAME conference organized at the University of Tampere, 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 305 Seiten
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ISBN:9789027205438
978-90-272-0543-8