Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution : Computational Linguistics and History

Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally....

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Main Author: McEnery, Anthony (auth)
Other Authors: Baker, Helen (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 20161201
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