Περιγραφή
Περίληψη: | "As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society, and consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods for investigating the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern"--
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Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Τα κεφάλαια του τόμου είναι αποτελέσματα του workshop "Big data and the study of language and culture: Parliamentary discourse across time and space", που πραγματοποίησαν οι επιμελητές στο συνέδριο ICAME 40 την 1η Ιουνίου 2019, στο Neuchâtel, Ελβετία. |
Φυσική περιγραφή: | vi, 379 σ. : εικ. ; 25 εκ. |
Βιβλιογραφία: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές και ευρετήριο. |
ISBN: | 9789027214065 |
ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |