Doing linguistics with a corpus : methodological considerations for the everyday user /

Doing linguistics with a corpus : methodological considerations for the everyday user /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Egbert, Jesse, 1985- (Author), Larsson, Tove (Author), Biber, Douglas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in corpus linguistics
Subjects:
Corpora (Linguistics)
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Computational linguistics.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Getting to Know Your Corpus
  • 3. Research Designs: Linguistically Meaningful Research Questions, Observational Units, Variables, and Dispersion
  • 4. Linguistically Interpretable Variables
  • 5. Software Tools and Linguistic Interpretability
  • 6. The Role of Statistical Analysis in Linguistic Descriptions
  • 7. Interpreting Quantitative Results
  • 8. Wrapping Up
  • Appendix: Why It Is Problematic to Apply NHST to Large (Corpus) Samples
  • References.