Böcker av Michael (University of Trier) Stubbs

The study of naturally occurring connected discourse, spoken or written is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas of linguistics. Traditional linguistics has concentrated on the analysis of single sentence or isolated speech acts.

This book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics -- corpus analysis -- and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use.

* Provides a detailed account of the place of lexis and phraseology in linguistic theory. * Contains extensive illustrations from corpus data and detailed case studies of words in phrases, words in texts, and words in culture. * Advances the empirical study of language.