Corpora in the description and teaching of English : papers from the 5th ESSE Conference

138 p.

• Information

  ISBN: 8849118392

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/8849118392

  SERIES

  Biblioteca della Scuola superiore di linguemoderne per interpreti e traduttori, Forlì ; 30
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • English and Anglo-Saxon languages
  • English Languages

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • English lnguage -- Data processing -- Congresses
  • English language -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Congresses
  • Computational linguistics -- Congresses
• In this volume

  • Introducction
  • Through and via
  • Academic writers putting modal verbs to work
  • Locating the zero article
  • Writing in the margins
  • Making the case for a corpus of English as a lingua franca
  • Towards multimodal corpora
  • Spin and counter-spin at the White House
  • The student as corpus linguist
  • Contributors