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.

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 d...

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Superior document:Language and computers: studies in practical linguistics ; no. 36
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi B.V.,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Language and Computers 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations.
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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.