Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis [Hardcover]

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:

*?collocations,
*?keyness
*?concordances
*?dispersion plots
*?building and annotating corpora

Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.

1. Introduction2. Corpus Building 3. Frequency and Dispersion 4. Concordances5. Collates6. Beyond Collocation7. Keyness8. ConclusionBibliographyIndex