Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-272-2252-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing some innovative approaches to the study of recurrent features and patterns in the languages of economics, history, linguistics, politics, and other fields. The papers critically examine contemporary discourses in which experts and laypersons are equally involved, showing that the spoken and written texts, selected from various specialized corpora, can be seen as collective memory banks. The series of reflections and specialized meanings uncovered in these texts are closely tied to particular sequences of patterned chunks in language and offer exciting insights into the inseparability of lexis and grammar.
The contributions to this volume were previously published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:3 (2008).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Römer, Ute

Schulze, Rainer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schrift, Paläographie, Orthographie