The 30th anniversary of the conference and its sponsoring organization International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, provided an opportunity to review the history of corpus linguistics and project its future as well as share recent findings. The proceedings are published in two volumes, the other one collecting methodological and historical papers, while this one focuses on results of research into modern English. The 16 selected papers consider such aspects as interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing, comparing pre-war and post-war data on differential change in British and American English, a comparison of the perfect in Bulgarian and German English-as-a-foreign-language writing, evidence from the TIME Corpus for the transitive into -ing construction in early-20th-century American English, and variation in the progressive in World Englishes. There is no index. The price is converted from euros and subject to fluctuation. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme of the book looking back, moving forward follows that of the conference where participants reflected on the extraordinary growth of corpus linguistics over three decades as well as looking ahead to yet further developments in the future. A separate volume, appearing as an e-publication in the VARIENG series from the University of Helsinki focuses on the methodological and historical dimensions of corpus linguistics. This volume features papers on present-day English and the recent history of English via the increasing availability of corpora covering the last hundred years or so of the language. Contributors to the volume study numerous topics and datasets including recent diachronic change, regional and new Englishes, learner corpora, Academic written English, parallel and translation corpora, corpora of popular music pop lyrics and computer-mediated communication. Overall the volume represents the state of the art in English corpus linguistics and a peek into the future directions for the field.
