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Book Reviews: Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics

Corpus linguistics is a hot topic, and for good reason. Text is more available than ever before. And consequently it is easier to use corpus data more effectively than it was in the 1950s, the last time that empiricism was in fashion. Corpus linguistics is such a hot area that it is already splitting up into a number of different sub-areas. Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics focuses on a...

Book and Resource Reviews

Abstracts and Book Reviews

S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

Book Reviews and Abstracts

We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...