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Corpora and Discourse Studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics ((PADLL))

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This book houses a collection of 13 independent studies which use the corpus linguistics methodology in order to carry out discourse analysis. In this introductory chapter we first introduce the two main concepts of the book, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, and cover the advantages of combining the two approaches. After discussing the existing key research and debates in this relatively new field we then outline the remainder of the book’s three-part structure with a brief description of each chapter.

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Baker, P., McEnery, T. (2015). Introduction. In: Baker, P., McEnery, T. (eds) Corpora and Discourse Studies. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_1

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