Modelling Variation in Spoken and Written English (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)

By David Y.W. Lee

Using fresh data from the British National Corpus , this book criticizes and expands Biber's seminal study (1988) of variation in spoken and written English. The author assesses the validity, stability and meaningfulness of Biber's results, critically re-evaluating the statistical methodology. In the process, many issues of importance in corpus-based research are touched upon, including: research design, corpus construction, representativeness, search algorithms, operationalization of linguistics concepts, and interpretation of statistical results.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415263751
• ISBN13: 9780415263757
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.