Building small specialised corpora

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 66-79

  Koester, Almut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203856949-8     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Flowerdew, L. (2004) ‘The Argument for Using English Specialized Corpora to Understand Academic and Professional Settings’, in U. Connor and T. Upton (eds) Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 11-33. (This chapter is useful for anyone wanting to build a specialised corpus: as well as presenting a rationale for using specialised corpora, it provides useful guidelines for defining a specialised corpus and for corpus design.)
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