Working with German Corpora (eBook, PDF)

with a foreword by John Sinclair
Redaktion: Dodd, Bill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume, writen by Germanists from Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia, illustrate the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole and the rich diversity of work currently being undertaken. A detailed introduction explains basic concepts, methods, and applications of corpus-based work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847143396
• Artikelnr.: 40775933

Autorenporträt

Bill Dodd is Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Birmingham. John Sinclair (1933-2007) was President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and held the title Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; John Sinclair Editor's Preface; Bill Dodd Note on language
corpora and software; Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Bill Dodd Notes on
contributors 1. Introduction: The revelavance of corpora to German studies;
Bill Dodd 2. Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's
Die Wahlaverwandtschaften as a model case; Gordon J.A. Burgess 3. When Ost
meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before
and during German reunification; Bill Dodd 4. German be- verns revisited:
using corpus evidence to investigate valency; Piklu Gupta 5. A corpus-based
study of German accusative/dative prepositions; Randall L. Jones 6.
Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-Engliah
translation; Dorothy Kenny 7. 'Die schine Geschichte': a corpus-based
analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder; Ann Lawson 8. Towards a
corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and
management in German; April Mackison 9. The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in
conText Project; Peter Roe 10. An electronic corpus of Early New High
German; Jonathan West 11. Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus
evidence; Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen 12. Inflected and periphrastic
subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s;
Nic Witton Index