Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. 1: Corpus linguistics and the BNC
5. Introduction 2
6. 1 Corpus linguistics 4
7. 2 The British National Corpus 28
8. 3 Future corpora 42
9. II: Exploring the BNC with SARA
10. Introduction 46
11. 1 Old words and new words 48
12. 2 What is more than one corpus? 63
13. 3 When is ajar not a door? 74
14. 4 A query too far 86
15. 5 Do people ever say 'you can say that again'? 98
16. 6 Do men say mauve? 112
17. 7 'Madonna hits album' - did it hit back? 129
18. 8 Springing surprises on the armchair linguist 143
19. 9 Returning to more serious matters 161
20. 10 What does 'SARA' mean? 179
21. III: Reference Guide
22. 1 Quick reference guide to the SARA client 196
23. 2 Code tables 230
24. 3 SGML Listing format 240
25. 4 Bibliography 242
26. Index 249