Working with Spanish Corpora

by Giovanni Parodi (Editor), Michaela Mahlberg (Editor), Gavin Brookes (Editor)

Overview

The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters represent a range of research on Spanish using a number of different corpora drawn from, amongst others, research articles, student writing, formal conversation and technical reports. A variety of methodologies are brought to bear upon these corpora including multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis, latent semantics and lexical bundles. This in-depth analysis of using Spanish corpora will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics or Spanish language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826494832
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2007
Series:	Corpus and Discourse
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Giovanni Parodi is Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.

Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Catching up with corpus linguistics: Register diversified studies from different corpora in different Spanish speaking countries: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
2. Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus: Giovanni Parodi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
3. Dimensions of register variation in Spanish: Douglas Biber and Nicole Tracy-Ventura (Northern Arizona University, USA)
4.Epistemic modality and academic spoken discourse: A pilot study for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Español Científico de la Argentina): Guiomar Ciapuscio (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
5.Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs of Spanish: Omar Sabaj (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
6. Spoken and written varieties of future tense expressions: Mercedes Sedano (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela)
7. Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types: Giovanni Parodi and Aída Gramajo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
8. Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92: Carmen López-Ferrero (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
9.Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus: René Venegas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
10.Lexical bundles in speech and writing: Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Douglas Biber, and Viviana Cortes (Northern Arizona University, USA and Iowa State University, USA)

Editorial Reviews

"[In this book] Parodi and company provide English language accounts of their research into Spanish corpora. For the first time readers from around the world who are unable to read Spanish have access to cutting edge studies of a variety of registers in one of the three main languages in the world. The authors in this volume take their inspiration from Biber's multi-dimensional analysis (MDA). Of particular interest here is the way in which Spanish factors resonate with and distinguish themselves from co-occurrence patterns in other languages. Especially rewarding are the insightful discussions of the communicative purposes which motivate factors, drawing on the rich tradition of discourse analysis informing Latin American linguistic theory." Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia” —Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

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