Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes

• Main Authors: Viana, Vander, O'Boyle, Aisling
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 2022; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Bilingualism; Corpora (Linguistics); Corpora for EAP; Corpus Linguistics; Corpus materials and EAP; Corpus-based approaches to EAP; EAP and teaching; English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes; English language; English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher); English language > Study and teaching (Higher) > Foreign speakers; English Language Teaching; ESL; ESP research; ESP teaching; Lexical Bundles; Keyword Analysis; EAP Research; English As A Lingua Franca; Corpora for EAP; Knowledge 8E; British Academic Written English Corpus; ESP research; Coca; Genre Families; Formulaic Sequences; Corpus-based approaches to EAP; Research Articles; ESP teaching; Corpus materials and EAP; Modal Verb; EMI; Esp; EAP Student; EAP Practitioner; Discussion Forums; Concordance Lines; Lingua Franca; Transcript Id; EAP and teaching; EAP; BNC; Corpus Analyses; Academic Prose; Corpus Compilation; Elf
• ISBN: 9781138741317; 1138741310; 9781138742086; 1138742082
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003245988

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students’, practitioners’ and researchers’ knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly discussion of the key concepts, practices and research applications of corpus linguistics which are relevant to the EAP community. The volume: empowers readers to compile and analyze EAP-relevant corpora to support their practice; Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes is an essential book for EAP students, practitioners and researchers who wish to develop corpus analytical skills to support their learning, teaching and research practice. It is equally important to novice corpus linguists who wish to find out how they can contribute to the ever-expanding area of EAP. draws on open-access resources, allowing readers in all contexts to engage in corpus analyses; examines how corpus studies have advanced the description of spoken, written and computer-mediated academic discourses; contains numerous reflective and hands-on tasks.