Working with German Corpora de Bill Dodd

Working with German Corpora: with a foreword by John Sinclair

Bill Dodd

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2006

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.

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Cuprins

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

Recenzii

'This volume is fascinating in itself in presenting a range of different types of corpus research. It is especially important for scholars German, both in the research findings that are reported and the development of reusable resources for other scholars. It points the way for researchers in other languages to gather material for similar volumes.' John Sinclair, from the Foreword.