LINGUIST List 17.1196

Fri Apr 21 2006

Books: Applied Ling/Discourse Analysis:Scott, Tribble

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Directory         1.    Paul Peranteau, Textual Patterns: Scott, Tribble
Message 1: Textual Patterns: Scott, Tribble
Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Textual Patterns: Scott, Tribble


Title: Textual Patterns Subtitle: Key words and corpus analysis in language education Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 22 Published: 2006 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2022

Author: Mike Scott, University of Liverpool Author: Christopher Tribble, King's College, University of London Hardback: ISBN: 9027222932 Pages: 203 Price: U.S. $ 114.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222932 Pages: 203 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9027222940 Pages: 203 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027222940 Pages: 203 Price: Europe EURO 33.00
Abstract:

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworksof central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators.Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematicstudy of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informedapproach to language teaching.

The first part of the book gives the reader a strong grounding in the wayin which language teachers can use corpus analysis tools (wordlists,concordances, key words) to describe language patterns in general and textpatterns in particular. The second section presents a series of casestudies which show how a key word/corpus informed approach to languageeducation can work in practice. The case studies include: General languageeducation (i.e. students in national education systems and those followinginternational examination programmes), foreign languages for academicpurposes, literature in language education, business and professionalcommunication, and cultural studies in language education.

Table of contents

Preface vi-x

1. Texts in anguage study and language education 3-10

2. Word-lists: Approaching texts 11-32

3. Concordances: The immediate context 33-53

4. Key words of individual texts: Aboutness and style 55-72

5. Key words and genres 73-88

6. General English language teaching: Grammar and lexis in spoken andwritten texts 91-108

7. Business and professional communication: Managing relationships inprofessional writing 109-129

8. English for academic purposes: Building an account of expert andapprentice performances in literary criticism 131-159

9. What counts in current journalism: Keywords in newspaper reporting161-177

10. Counting things in texts you can't count on: A study of SamuelBeckett's Texts for Nothing, 1 179-193

References 195-198

Index 199-203

"The keyword is a powerful tool for assessing and understanding texts; thisbook gives a clear and detailed description of its possibilities, mainlythrough a series of convincing applications to a wide range of texts.Language learners and teachers should find full practical support here fortheir own investigations, provided by two pioneers of the harnessing ofcomputer corpora to language learning."John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre

"This book is a delight to read. It is not only an exceptionally clear andcogent account of the procedures of corpus analysis in general, but aconvincing demonstration of how revealing these procedures can be whenapplied to particular texts, literary and non-literary, by focusingattention on features of potential significance for interpretation. Anybodyworking with texts should make it a priority to read this one."Henry G. Widdowson, University of Vienna

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Discourse Analysis
Written In: English (eng )

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