Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics

Description

Perspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study of words) and corpus linguistics: how are individual words integrated into language? What are the real benefits of studying the large quantities of text now available in corpora? How do we best conceptualize meaning itself?

Table of Contents

Section One
1. What is a Word?
2. Methods in Lexicology: the Dictionary
3. Methods in Lexicology: the Thesaurus
4. History of Lexicology: India, China, the Islamic World, Europe
5. Evolution of the Dictionary and Thesaurus in England
6. Recent Developments in Lexicology
7. Sources and Resources
Section Two
8. Etymology
9. Prescription
10. Grammar, Syntax and Lexicogrammar
11. Semantics
12. Language and Reality
13. Language and Society
14. Language and Cognition
15. Language and Computation
16. Language and Languages
17. Translation
Section Three:
18. Corpus Linguistics as a Theoretical Approach
19. Corpus Typology
20. Corpus Linguistics and Language
21. The Minimal Assumption Postulate
22. Research and Development
23. Corpus Semantics
24. Multilingual Semantics
25. Multilingual Corpus Semantics
26. Applying Multilingual Corpus Semantics
27. Semantics and the Multilingual Corpus

Author(s)

M.A.K. Halliday,

M. A. K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australis.

Anna Cermáková,

Colin Yallop,

Wolfgang Teubert, Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.