Seeing Through Multilingual Corpora

Author : Stig Johansson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292827

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Seeing through Multilingual Corpora by Stig Johansson Pdf

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corpus-based contrastive studies, including applications in lexicography, translator training, and foreign-language teaching. Though the main focus is on English and Norwegian, the approach should be of interest more generally for corpus-based contrastive research and for language studies in general. Seeing through corpora we can see through language.

Author : Stig Johansson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027223009

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Seeing Through Multilingual Corpora by Stig Johansson Pdf

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corpus-based contrastive studies, including applications in lexicography, translator training, and foreign-language teaching. Though the main focus is on English and Norwegian, the approach should be of interest more generally for corpus-based contrastive research and for language studies in general. Seeing through corpora we can see through language.

Author : Simon Philip Botley,Anthony M. McEnery,Andrew Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004485204

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Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research by Simon Philip Botley,Anthony M. McEnery,Andrew Wilson Pdf

The use of corpus data in languages other than English has become increasingly important in recent years, and as a result has given rise to a growing body of research and applications in multilingual corpus linguistics. This book collects together a selection of papers which have made use of multilingual corpus data in language teaching, as well as linguistic research. The corpora described in this book include data in a variety of languages, including Swedish, Chinese, German and Italian, and the contributors include well known scholars in the fields of corpus linguistics and corpus-based language teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401204347

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Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades – from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.

Author : Simon Botley,Tony McEnery,Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Brill
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015042404429

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Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research by Simon Botley,Tony McEnery,Andrew Wilson Pdf

The use of corpus data in languages other than English has become increasingly important in recent years, and as a result has given rise to a growing body of research and applications in multilingual corpus linguistics. This book collects together a selection of papers which have made use of multilingual corpus data in language teaching, as well as linguistic research. The corpora described in this book include data in a variety of languages, including Swedish, Chinese, German and Italian, and the contributors include well known scholars in the fields of corpus linguistics and corpus-based language teaching.

Author : Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027272324

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Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics by Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg Pdf

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.

Author : Wolfgang Teubert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292377

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Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography by Wolfgang Teubert Pdf

The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics reach from building parallel corpora over annotation issues and questions concerning terminology extraction to bilingual and multilingual lexicography; the statistical properties of parallel corpora and the practice of translators; and the role of corpus linguistics for multilingual language technology.

Author : Tony McEnery,Andrew Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139502443

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Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery,Andrew Hardie Pdf

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how corpus data has led to methodological and theoretical innovation in linguistics in general. Clear and detailed explanations lay out the key issues of method and theory in contemporary corpus linguistics. A structured and coherent narrative links the historical development of the field to current topics in 'mainstream' linguistics. Practical tasks and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter encourage students to test their understanding of what they have read and an extensive glossary provides easy access to definitions of technical terms used in the text.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789004653665

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Corpora and Cross-Linguistic Research by Anonim Pdf

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the development and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora. As Karin Aijmer writes in this book, 'The contrastive or comparative perspective ... makes it possible to dig deeper and to ask new questions about the relationship between languages with the aim of sharpening our conceptions of cross-linguistic correspondences and adding to our knowledge of the languages compared.' The papers in this volume are a showcase of the great variety of purposes to which bilingual and multilingual corpora can be put. They do not only lend themselves to descriptive and applied approaches, but are also suitable for theory-oriented studies. The range of linguistic phenomena covered by the various approaches is very wide; the papers focus on fields of research like syntax, discourse, semantics, information structure, lexis, and translation studies. The range of languages studied comprises English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, and Portuguese. In addition to purely linguistic papers, there are contributions on computer programs developed for the compilation and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora.

Author : Wolfgang Teubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1588111555

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Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography by Wolfgang Teubert Pdf

Author : Lynne Bowker,Jennifer Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134560677

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Working with Specialized Language by Lynne Bowker,Jennifer Pearson Pdf

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. The resources and techniques used to investigate general language cannot be easily adopted for specialized investigations. This book is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, a glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software. Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.

Author : Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Guy Aston,Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441112026

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New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Guy Aston,Lynne Flowerdew Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both language teaching and learning and corpus and computational linguistics.

Author : Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi,Helia Vaezian,Mahmoud Akbari
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Corpora (Linguistics)
ISBN : 303430434X

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Corpora in Translation by Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi,Helia Vaezian,Mahmoud Akbari Pdf

Corpora are among the hottest issues in translation studies affecting both pure and applied realms of the discipline. As for pure translation studies, corpora have done their part through contributions to the studies on translational language and translation universals. Yet, their recent contribution is within the borders of applied translation studies, i.e. translator training and translation aids. The former is the major focus of the present book. The present book in fact aims at providing readers with comprehensive information about corpora in translation studies in general, and corpora in translator education in particular. It further offers researchers and practitioners a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of studies done on corpora in translator education and provides a rich source of information on pros and cons of using different types of corpora as translation aids in the context of translation classrooms.

Author : Mikhail Mikhailov,Robert Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317229391

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Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies by Mikhail Mikhailov,Robert Cooper Pdf

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving special attention to parallel corpora, which are collections of texts in two or more languages, and demonstrating the potential benefits for multilingual corpus linguistics research to both translators and researchers, this book: explores the different types of parallel corpora available, and shows how to use basic and advanced search procedures to analyse them; explains how to compile a parallel corpus, and discusses their uses for translation purposes and to research linguistic phenomena across languages; demonstrates the use of corpus extracts across a wide range of texts, including dictionaries, novels by authors including Jane Austen and Mikhail Bulgakov, and newspapers such as The Sunday Times; is illustrated with case studies from a range of languages including Finnish, Russian, English and French. Written by two experienced researchers and practitioners, Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers working within the area of translation and contrastive studies.

Author : Marie-Aude Lefer,Svetlana Vogeleer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Corpora (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9027226873

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Interference and Normalization in Genre-controlled Multilingual Corpora by Marie-Aude Lefer,Svetlana Vogeleer Pdf

Capturing the distinction between translated vs. original (i.e. non-translated) language varieties holds centre stage in corpus-based translation studies and related fields such as supervised machine learning. A similar question also holds for native vs. proficient non-native speakers' production. In both cases, the linguistic features that seem to be good indicators of the different language varieties appear to be genre-dependent. In the articles included in this volume, genre-controlled multilingual corpora are used to identify and measure two competing properties of both translational and non-native language varieties: (i) source (or native) language interference and (ii) normalization, which can be described as a tendency to fit into target-language standards. The topics addressed include linguistic features to uncover and quantify interference and normalization within a specific genre and across genres, the complementarity of comparable vs. parallel corpus data and experimental vs. corpus data to investigate interference and normalization, and the extraction of highly similar and homogeneous comparable and parallel corpora from multilingual resources such as Europarl. A wide range of genres are examined, e.g. research articles abstracts, parliamentary debates, administrative texts, fiction.