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Tengku Sepoa Tengku Mahadi, Helia Vaezian, Mahmoud Akbari · Peter Lang eBooks · 2016
This timely book joins the growing number of leading introductory volumes on corpus linguistics, including McEnery and Wilson (1996) and Biber, Conrad, and Reppen (1998).The former volume represents the first-ever introductory textbook on corpus linguistics; the latter, also recently published, is strong on reporting many of the authors' own analyses of speech and writing and providing "methodology boxes" for the computer processing of text using the corpus-based paradigm.Space constraints do not permit the comparison of all three volumes, especially in relation to the use of the corpus-based approach for natural language processing.In the present instance, it is to his credit that Graeme Kennedy has single-handedly achieved the difficult task of systematically providing an historical overview and evaluating the significance of many important studies that currently define the corpus-based approach.The book is organized as follows:. . . . .