Corpus in Applied Linguistics

Author: (English) Susan Hunston
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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 expertise in COBUILD corpus research. In this book, Corpus in Applied Linguistics, she extensively utilizes 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 effectively used in applied linguistics. Susan believes that corpora can be applied to language teaching (she also) discusses the importance of corpora for applied linguistics and their inherent limitations." "Susan Hunston is a highly practical linguist, and her work on corpus practice is well-organized, rich in examples, and fluent in language, making it an outstanding and rare book in current corpus linguistics research. Carefully reading this book and thoughtfully considering its various issues will benefit not only researchers of foreign languages or Chinese but also readers learning foreign languages or Chinese."