Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (Continuum Discourse)
by Paul Baker
2006
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Paul Baker examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. He looks a number of methodologies including collocations, keyness, concordances and dispersion plots and illustrates them with real-life examples.