Corpora: British National Corpus

Katy Lockwood (Katy.Lockwood@ed.ac.uk)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:06:06 +0000

Subscribers to CORPORA may be interested to know that Edinburgh University
Press has just published 'The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National
Corpus with SARA' by Guy Aston (Bologna) and Lou Burnard (Oxford). This is
the 3rd volume in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series:

This textbook gives students an understanding of the principles and
practices of using large language corpora in exploratory learning and
English language teaching and research. It focuses on the largest and most
representative corpus of spoken and written data yet compiled - the British
National Corpus - and on the search tool SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval
Application). Students are taken through a graded series of exercises,
which at the same time introduce new features of the software and new
techniques or applications for computer-assisted language learning. With
an overview of previous work in corpus linguistics, a bibliography, and a
reference manual for the SARA software, this is a one-stop learning package
for students new to the subject.

Paperback: 0 7486 1055 3 (pounds sterling) 14.95
Hardback: 0 7486 1054 5 (pounds sterling) 40.00

If you are teaching a relevant course of 12 students or more, you can
request an inspection copy of this book. Email the details of your course
to Katy Lockwood at Katy.Lockwood@ed.ac.uk, or send them to Katy Lockwood,
Edinburgh University Press, 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF, UK.
If you wish to buy a copy of this book, you can order direct from Marston
Book Services. Email direct.order@marston.co.uk, telephone +44 (0)1235
465500, fax +44 (0)1235 465555 or write to Marston Book Services, PO Box
269, Abingdon, Oxon. OX14 4YN, UK.