New frontiers of corpus research : : papers from the twenty first international conference on english language research on computerized corpora, sydney, 2000 / / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam S. Cohen.

• Superior document: Language and computers: studies in practical linguistics ; no. 36
• Author: International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora Sydney)
• TeilnehmendeR: Collins, Peter, 1950-; Peters, Pam,; Smith, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi B.V.,, [2002]; ©2002
• Utgivningsår: 2002
• Språk: English
• Serie: Language and Computers 36.
• Fysisk beskrivning: 1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations.

This volume presents highlights of the first ICAME conference held in the southern hemisphere, in papers on new kinds of corpora for business and communications technology, as well as those comprising computer-mediated communication and college newspapers. The latter yield lively insights into the digitized discourse of younger adults and non-professional writers -- speech communities that have been underrepresented in the standard English corpora. Other groups that are newly represented in research reported in this volume are bilingual users of English in Singapore, Hong Kong and China, as corpus data is brought to bear on second-language speech and writing. The proposed corpus of spoken Dutch profiled here will support research into its variation in different genres and contexts of use in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Research on new historical corpora from C15 to C18 is also reported, along with techniques for normalizing prestandardized English for computerized searching. Meanwhile papers on contemporary usage show some of the continual interplay between British and American English, in grammar and details of the lexicon that are important for English language teachers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: new frontiers of corpus research / Pam Peters , Peter Collins and Adam Smith -- TERMINEC: a clearinghouse for economics text and terminology / Magnar Brekke -- Vaguely speaking: a corpus approach to vague language in intercultural conversations / Neil Drave -- On the discourse marker so / He Anping -- Lexis, indirectness and politeness in operator calls / Tony McEnery , Paul Baker and Christine Cheepen -- The Coll Corpus: towards a corpus of web-based college student newspapers / David C. Minugh -- Aspects of computer-mediated communication for research in corpus linguistics / Vincent B Y Ooi -- The design of the Spoken Dutch Corpus / Nelleke Oostdijk -- Canting terms in the Early English Prose Fiction Corpus / Maurizio Gotti -- In (hot) pursuit of data: complex prepositions in late modern English / Sebastian Hoffmann -- Pied piping and stranding from a diachronic perspective / Christine Johansson -- Zero subject relative constructions in American and British English / Hans Martin Lehmann -- Towards an analysis of pragmatic and stylistic features in 15th and 17th century English letters / Manfred Markus -- Computer assisted spelling normalization of 18th century English / Peter Schneider -- Whom is not dead? / Pieter de Haan -- Can and could in contemporary British English: a study of the ICEGB corpus / Roberta Facchinetti -- What’s a word like girl doing in a place like this? Occupational labels, sexist usages and corpus research / Janet Holmes and Robert Sigley -- On polysemy and interpretation. The case of eventual / Göran Kjellmer -- Functions of intonation in sentences and texts / Ilka Mindt -- Grammatical word class variation within the British National Corpus Sampler / Paul Rayson , Andrew Wilson and Geoffrey Leech -- Temporal specification of the present perfect: a corpus-based study / Norbert Schlüter -- Ever moving on? The progressive in recent British English. / Nicholas Smith.