Corpus in Applied Linguistics - A Western Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Perspective

Author: Huo Zeng
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "Professor Susan Hunston has extensive experience in language teaching and applied linguistics research, as well as mastery of the materials of COBUILD corpus research. In this book, Corpus in Applied Linguistics, she extensively uses the rich linguistic materials from the Bank of English corpus, closely integrating applied linguistics with corpus studies. She offers many unique insights into how corpora can be utilized in applied linguistics. Susan believes that corpora can be used for language teaching (she also) discusses the importance of corpora for applied linguistics and their inherent limitations." "Susan Hunston is a very pragmatic linguist. Her work on corpus practice is well-organized, rich in examples, fluent in language, and easy to understand. It is an outstanding and rare book in current corpus linguistics research. Carefully reading this book and thoughtfully considering its various questions will benefit not only researchers of foreign languages or Chinese but also readers learning foreign languages or Chinese."