{"product_id":"9781399537384","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English : 3rd Edition by Hans Lindquist","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/01\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.   After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, gender and language, and language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations as well as including a section on creating your own corpus. Each chapter includes new study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading. Readers also benefit from an accompanying web-page with exercises and updated information about freely accessible corpora. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368798237045,"sku":"9781399537384","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399537384.jpg?v=1764610865","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781399537384","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}