ICAME Journal No. 32
Provided it works and provided you are not an Eskimo, a refrigerator is a great invention. The logic behind this simple (or simplistic) observation might also be applied when reviewing a book: first of all does it prove to be useful for the target audience and secondly, does it ‘work’? This review w...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.222.8959 http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/corplang/cbls/Bernard_de_Clerck_review.pdf |
| Summary: | Provided it works and provided you are not an Eskimo, a refrigerator is a great invention. The logic behind this simple (or simplistic) observation might also be applied when reviewing a book: first of all does it prove to be useful for the target audience and secondly, does it ‘work’? This review will revolve around answering these basic questions. The book itself is part of the Routledge Applied Linguistics Series, whose target audience the series editors identify as “upper undergraduates and postgraduates on language, applied linguistics and communication studies programmes as well as teachers and researchers in professional development and distance-learning programmes ” (p. xvi). The actual aim of the book is “to bring readers up to date with the latest developments in corpus-based language studies” by addressing both “how to ” and “why ” questions. The template that is used to realise this purpose is one that recurs throughout the series as a whole: an introductory part which explains key terms and concepts, an extension part which digs deeper by assessing and commenting on excerpts from selected key |
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