Böcker av Jesse (Northern Arizona University) Egbert

The use of language corpora, or large samples of natural texts, has become ubiquitous in linguistic research. Yet, there are no conceptual or methodological frameworks for corpus representativeness. This book is the first to provide the field of linguistics with a comprehensive framework for corpus design, evaluation, and representativeness.

While there have been other books that focus on special internet registers, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web, such as news reports, travel blogs, discussion forums, and FAQs. This monograph provides comprehensive situational, lexical, and grammatical descriptions of multiple online registers.

This Element explores ways to improve how we approach linguistic research questions with quantitative corpus data. We introduce and illustrate the major steps in the research process, and provide suggestions for improvements that will help researchers make quantitative corpus-based research more language focused and linguistically informative.