Empirical Linguistics (Open Linguistics S.)

Sampson, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0826448836 / ISBN 13: 9780826448835

Edité par Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2001

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A fine hardcover book. Laminated boards. No jacket as issued.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Empirical Linguistics (Open Linguistics S.)
• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0826448836
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780826448835
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, using computers and electronic language samples.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy intuitions about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples (corpora). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as Is there one English language or many Englishes? and Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes? Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step recipe-book method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.