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Book SynopsisFrom Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.
Table of ContentsPreface Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen Part 1: Evidence from “Big Data” 2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics Antoinette Renouf 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design Mark Davies 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English Lieselotte Anderwald 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko Part 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”? 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data Thomas Kohnen 7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective Tanja Rütten 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions Daniela Landert 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor Tony McEnery and Helen Baker 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö 13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics David Brett and Antonio Pinna 14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw Indexe
