Acknowledgements |
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Preface |
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What is a corpus and how can we use it? |
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Which corpus, what for and what size? |
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How to make a basic corpus |
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Basic corpus linguistic techniques |
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Lexico-grammatical profiles |
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How have corpora been used? |
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How have corpora influenced language teaching? |
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21 | (4) |
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Issues and debates in the use of corpora in language teaching |
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Establishing basic and advanced levels in vocabulary learning |
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Frequency and native-speaker vocabulary size |
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The most frequent words and the core vocabulary |
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33 | (4) |
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The broad categories of a basic vocabulary |
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37 | (9) |
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Chunks at the basic level |
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46 | (1) |
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The basic level: conclusion |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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The 6,000 to 10,000 word band |
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50 | (3) |
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Meanings and connotations |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (4) |
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Lessons from the analysis of chunks |
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58 | (22) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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Strings of words in corpora |
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60 | (2) |
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Phraseology and idiomaticity |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (5) |
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Interpreting the data: chunks and single words |
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Chunks and units of interaction |
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70 | (5) |
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Conclusions and implications |
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Idioms in everyday use and in language teaching |
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80 | (20) |
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80 | (2) |
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Finding and classifying idioms |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (2) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (3) |
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Idioms in specialised contexts |
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Idioms in teaching and learning |
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94 | (6) |
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Grammar and lexis and patterns |
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100 | (20) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (2) |
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Grammar rules and patterns: deterministic and probabilistic |
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104 | (2) |
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The get-passive: an extended case study |
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106 | (1) |
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Previous studies of the get-passive |
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106 | (2) |
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Get-passives and related forms |
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108 | (1) |
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Core get-passive constructions in the CANCODE sub-corpus |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (1) |
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Grammar as structure and grammar as probabilities: the example of ellipsis |
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114 | (1) |
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Conclusions and implications |
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115 | (5) |
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Grammar, discourse and pragmatics |
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120 | (20) |
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120 | (1) |
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Non-restrictive which-clauses |
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120 | (2) |
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Previous studies of which-clauses |
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122 | (1) |
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Concordance analysis of which-clauses |
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122 | (5) |
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127 | (3) |
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130 | (6) |
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Bringing the insights together |
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136 | (1) |
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Corpus grammar and pedagogy |
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137 | (3) |
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Listenership and response |
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140 | (19) |
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140 | (2) |
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142 | (3) |
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Response tokens across varieties of English |
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145 | (3) |
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Functions of response tokens |
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Conclusions and implications |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (25) |
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159 | (4) |
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163 | (5) |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (3) |
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174 | (2) |
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Vagueness and approximation |
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176 | (5) |
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Conclusions and implications |
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181 | (3) |
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Language and creativity: creating relationships |
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184 | (14) |
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184 | (1) |
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Spoken language and creativity |
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184 | (4) |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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Corpus to pedagogy: creating relationships |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (4) |
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Quantitative and qualitative |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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Specialising: academic and business corpora |
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198 | (22) |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (2) |
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Written academic English: examples of frequency |
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200 | (3) |
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203 | (1) |
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Spoken academic English, conversation and spoken business English |
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204 | (2) |
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The CANBEC business corpus |
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206 | (4) |
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210 | (4) |
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Problem and its institutional construction in CANBEC |
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214 | (2) |
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216 | (1) |
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216 | (4) |
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Exploring teacher corpora |
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220 | (26) |
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220 | (2) |
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222 | (1) |
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Frameworks for the analysis of classroom language |
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222 | (7) |
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Applying the frameworks to a corpus of classroom data |
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229 | (4) |
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Looking at questioning in the classroom |
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233 | (7) |
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Teacher corpora in professional development |
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240 | (3) |
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Conclusions and considerations |
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243 | (3) |
Coda |
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246 | (3) |
References |
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Appendix 1 |
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284 | (13) |
Appendix 2 |
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297 | (4) |
Appendix 3 |
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301 | (4) |
Author index |
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305 | (5) |
Subject index |
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310 | (4) |
Publisher's acknowledgements |
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