Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts

by Zou, Bin; Hoey, Michael; Smith, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781137440020
• ISBN10: 1137440023
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-31
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not 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. Uniquely, this book includes corpus studies on both Chinese and English, addressing the use of corpora in language teaching, analysis of learner language, as well as examinations of patterns of Chinese and English. Topics addressed include the novel extension of Lexical Priming theory to Chinese, textual analyses of both Chinese and English, and learner corpus studies. The book will appeal to all those interested in teaching or researching language using corpora, where either the target language, learners or teaching context is Chinese.

Author Biography

Bin Zou is Senior Tutor at the Language Centre, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, and a committee member of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association.
 
Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English Language and Pro-Vice Chancellor at University of Liverpool, UK. He has lectured in applied linguistics in over 40 countries, and is the author a number of textbooks on applied linguistics including Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language, which proposes a new, corpus-based way of looking at language.

Simon Smith is Senior Lecturer at the Coventry University, UK. His research interests are in Corpus Linguistics techniques in the teaching of English and Chinese. His recent published work has focused on both Chinese and English learning, including data-driven learning and corpus construction by learners.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Corpus Linguistics in China: theory, technology and pedagogy; Naixing Wei
Preface
Introduction; Wenzhong Li and Simon Smith
1. Lexical Priming: The Odd Case of a Psycholinguistic Theory that Generates Corpus-linguistic Hypotheses for both English and Chinese; Michael Hoey and Juan Shao
2. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Cross-linguistic Contrast of English and Chinese; Richard Xiao
3. Learning Chinese with the Sketch Engine; Adam Kilgarriff, Nicole Keng, Simon Smith
4. Patterned Distribution of Phraseologies within Text: The Case of Research Articles; Maocheng Liang
5. Corpus' Pedagogic Processing of Phraseology for EFL Teaching: A Case of Implementation; Anping He
6. A Corpus Analysis of Chinese Students' (Mis-)use of Nouns at XJTLU; Wangheng Peng
7. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Conjunctions in an EAP Teaching Context at a Sino-British University in China; Bin Zou and Wangheng Peng
8. Application of Corpus Analysis Methods to the Teaching of Advanced English Reading and Students' Textual Analysis Skills; Wang Haiping and Zheng Yuanyuan
9. An Appraisal Analysis of Reports about Chinese Military Affairs in The New York Times; Zhaoyang Mei, Ren Zhang and Baixiang Yu