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Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts

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Editors:
  1. Bin Zou

    1. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

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  2. Simon Smith

    1. Coventry University, UK

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  3. Michael Hoey

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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Part of the book series: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments (NLLTE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith
    Pages 1-14

  3. Lexical Priming: The Odd Case of a Psycholinguistic Theory that Generates Corpus-Linguistic Hypotheses for Both English and Chinese

    • Michael Hoey, Juan Shao
    Pages 15-34

  4. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Cross-linguistic Contrast of English and Chinese

    • Richard Xiao
    Pages 35-62

  5. Learning Chinese with the Sketch Engine

    • Adam Kilgarriff, Nicole Keng, Simon Smith
    Pages 63-73

  6. Patterned Distribution of Phraseologies within Text: The Case of Research Articles

    • Maocheng Liang
    Pages 74-97

  7. Corpus Pedagogic Processing of Phraseology for EFL Teaching: A Case of Implementation

    • Anping He
    Pages 98-113

  8. A Corpus Analysis of Chinese Students’ (Mis-)Use of Nouns at XJTLU

    • Wangheng Peng
    Pages 114-133

  9. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Conjunctions in an EAP Teaching Context at a Sino-British University in China

    • Bin Zou, Wangheng Peng
    Pages 134-157

  10. Application of Corpus Analysis Methods to the Teaching of Advanced English Reading and Students’ Textual Analysis Skills

    • Haiping Wang, Yuanyuan Zheng, Yiyan Cai
    Pages 158-177

  11. An Appraisal Analysis of Reports about Chinese Military Affairs in the New York Times

    • Zhaoyang Mei, Ren Zhang, Baixiang Yu
    Pages 178-200

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-203
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About this book

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

Reviews

“Zou, Smith, and Hoey did a great job in compiling this volume of corpus-based and corpus-driven research on Chinese, English, and EFL. … This volume also opens many new venues of corpus-based research. … Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts will be of great value for corpus linguists, applied linguists, EFL and CSL practitioners, as well as anyone interested in the theoretical and practical issues related to corpora.” (Chunsheng Yang, LINGUIST List, linguistlist.org, March, 2016)

“The volume under review was well written regarding the issues of corpus linguistics in China. … this book is attempt to offer the data regarding current trends of some important issues of theory, tools and applications in corpus linguistic studies in China in a unique way. … the book is very informative and provides valuable additional insights to the growing literature on corpus linguistics, in particular, the new development in China.” (Qiurong Zhao, Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 7 (1), 2016)

“Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts, provides a timely opportunity for practitioners in corpus linguistics worldwide to become familiar with the current exciting developments brought to language studies in China by the corpus approach. … the volume successfully provides an engaging, up-to-date and multifaceted overview of the ongoing corpus-informed analysis of language teaching and research in China, making it a valuable resource for language teachers and researchers who are keen on integrating corpus technology into their work.” (Wei Guan, System, Vol. 61, 2016) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

    Bin Zou

  • Coventry University, UK

    Simon Smith

  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Michael Hoey

About the editors

Yiyan Cai, Shanghai International Studies University, China Anping He, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool, UK Nicole Keng, Coventry University in Guangzhou, China Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd., UK Wenzhong Li, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Maocheng Liang, National Research Centre forForeign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Zhaoyang Mei, The Third Military Medical University, China Wangheng Peng, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University,China Juan Shao, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Simon Smith, Coventry University, UK Wang Haiping, East China University of Political Science and Law, China Naixing Wei, Beihang University, Beijing, China Richard Xiao, Lancaster University, UK Baixiang Yu, National University of Defense Technology, China Ren Zhang, National University of Defense Technology, China Zheng Yuanyuan, Shanghai International Studies University's Xianda College, China Bin Zou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

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