Corpus Linguistics.02 (HSK 29.2) 1st edition

This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of corpus linguistics. Spoken, written, or multimodal corpora serve as the basis for quantitative and qualitative research on many questions of linguistic interest. The volume comprises 61 articles by internationally renowned experts. They sketch the history of corpus linguistics and its relationship with neighboring disciplines, show its potential, discuss its problems, and describe various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching corpora, as well as processing corpus data. It is up-to-date and a complete handbook which includes both an overview and detailed discussions. It collects a great number of experts in one and the same volume.