Corpus linguistics

In this chapter, we present some ways in which corpus linguistics has been used in business discourse research. Our presentation reflects our experience in a large business discourse project and research group in Brazil, namely DIRECT, which has been active since 1991. First, we define corpus lingui...

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Published inHandbook of Business Discourse pp. 105 - 118
Main Authors Sardinha, Tony Berber, Barbara, Leila
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Edinburgh University Press 2009
Subjects
Applied linguistics
Applied sciences
Business communication & presentation
Communications
Controlled vocabularies
Discourse analysis
Engineering
Grammar
Handbooks
Information resources
Information science
Keywords
Language
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Language translation
Lexicology
Linguistics
Parts of speech
Semiotics
Social sciences
Subject terms
Telecommunications
Teleconferencing
Terminology
Theoretical linguistics
Verbs
Words
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ISBN9780748628018
0748628010
DOI10.1515/9780748631834-015

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Summary:In this chapter, we present some ways in which corpus linguistics has been used in business discourse research. Our presentation reflects our experience in a large business discourse project and research group in Brazil, namely DIRECT, which has been active since 1991. First, we define corpus linguistics as an area of language studies that is devoted to the compilation and analysis of corpora, which in turn are collections of texts and transcriptions of talk stored in computer-readable form that have been gathered for linguistic analysis. Second, we outline the three main characteristics of our approach to corpus analysis of business
ISBN:9780748628018
0748628010
DOI:10.1515/9780748631834-015