From Data to Evidence in English Language Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39064-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 83, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Language and Computers

From Data to Evidence in English Language Research draws on diverse digital data sources alongside more traditional linguistic corpora to offer new insights into the ways in which they can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics. This is achieved, for example, by increasing data size, adding multi-layered contextual analyses, applying methods from adjacent fields, and adapting existing data sets to new uses.

Making innovative contributions to digital linguistics, the chapters in the volume apply a combination of methods to the increasing amount of digital data available to researchers to show how this data – both established and newly available - can be utilized, enriched and rethought to provide new evidence for developments in the English language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suhr, Carla

Nevalainen, Terttu

Taavitsainen, Irma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Editors

Notes on Contributors

1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data

Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen

Part 1: Evidence from “Big Data”

2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics

Antoinette Renouf

3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design

Mark Davies

4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English

Lieselotte Anderwald

5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English

Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko

Part 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”?

6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data

Thomas Kohnen

7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective

Tanja Rütten

8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions

Daniela Landert

9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence

Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider

Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data?

10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor

Tony McEnery and Helen Baker

11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich

12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets

Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö

13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics

David Brett and Antonio Pinna

14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach

Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw

Indexe

Über Autor(innen)

Carla Suhr, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at that university. She is a co-compiler of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing and has published on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.

Terttu Nevalainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, is Professor of English Philology, the Director of the VARIENG Research Unit, and a co-compiler of the historical Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, with well over 100 related publications.

Irma Taavitsainen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Professor Emerita of English Philology, Deputy Director of VARIENG, and a co-compiler of the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, has published extensively on corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics.

Contributors are: Lieselotte Anderwald, Helen Baker, David Brett, Mark Davies, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Turo Hiltunen, Mark Kaunisto, Hanna Kermes, Ashraf Khamis, Thomas Kohnen, Mikko Laitinen, Alexander Lakaw, Daniela Landert, Magnus Levin, Tony McEnery, Terttu Nevalainen, Antonio Pinna, Antionette Renouf, Juhani Rudanko, Tanja Rütten, Gerold Schneider, Carla Suhr, Irma Taavitsainen, Elke Teich, Jukka Tyrkkö.