The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARAThis textbook is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the principles and practices underlying the use of large language corpora in exploratory learning and English language teaching and research. It focuses on the largest and most representative corpus of spoken and written data yet compiled - the British National Corpus - and on the search tool SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application). The method adopted is to provide a graded series of exercises, each introducing at the same time new features of the software and new techniques or applications for computer-assisted language learning. The book also includes an overview of previous work in corpus linguistics, a bibliography, and a reference manual for the SARA software.* Graded self-paced tutorials* Suggestions for further work* Thorough coverage of corpus linguistics theories and practices* State-of-the-art software* Accessible non-specialist style |
Contents
What is a corpus? | 4 |
1 | 10 |
The British National Corpus | 28 |
Copyright | |
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The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA Guy Aston,Lou Burnard No preview available - 1998 |
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acronym ajar annotation appear attribute values bookmark British National Corpus CATREF character checked click on OK clipboard collocation colour command component CONCORDANCE contains content node corpora corpus corpus linguistics CQL QUERY current query current solution default defined display mode example FILE menu forms hits indicate L-words language linguistic matching words Microsoft Windows noun number of solutions OK to insert OK to send particular Pattern Query Phrase Query portmanteau POS code POS Query preceded Primary key Query Builder QUERY button Query dialogue box query focus QUERY menu QUERY option QUERY TEXT query to find radio button sample scope node scroll select EDIT send the query sentence server SGML dialogue box SGML element SGML entity SGML Query solutions dialogue box sort the solutions span speakers specified speech spoken texts status bar string submenu tags toolbar total number verb window Word Query dialogue written texts