摘要:The publication of Corpus Linguistics is noteworthy: as the first volume
in the new series ‘Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics’, this
textbook reflects not only the increasing importance that empirically-based
studies of language are coming to play in linguistics but the prominent
role that corpus linguistics has assumed among the many different
empirically-based approaches to language study. In Corpus Linguistics,
McEnery and Wilson (hereafter MW) very clearly introduce the field of
corpus linguistics to students, providing a very effective overview of
the key linguistic and computational issues that corpus linguists have
to address as they create corpora and conduct analyses of them.