This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.
About the Author
Michael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier in Germany. He was Chair of BAAL (the British Association for Applied Linguistics) from 1988 to 1991. He has published widely on language in education, on text and discourse analysis, and on corpus linguistics. His previous books include Discourse Analysis (Blackwell 1983), Educational Linguistics (Blackwell 1986), and Text and Corpus Analysis (Blackwell 1996).
Features
Provides a detailed account of the place of lexis and phraseology in linguistic theory.
Contains extensive illustrations from corpus data and detailed case studies of words in phrases, words in texts, and words in culture.
Advances the empirical study of language.
Supplements large text collections for studying language in use.
