Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 232 pages
- Published by: Wiley-Blackwell March 3, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0631234349
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0631234340
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 15 ounces
Product Review
''Learning to program isn't really hard,' the author claims. Teaching good programming to linguists, however, or to arts and humanities students in general, isn't really that easy a job either, in practice. This introductory book, clear and concise as it is, should be a helpful tool at the very first stages of such an enterprise." Kwee Tjoe Liong, Universiteit van Amsterdam
"The really strong points of the book are the examples and exercises. These are almost all language-related and include useful, interesting and relevant questions and situations that the reader interested in language research will appreciate." New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics
"Surprisingly readableshould be on the bookshelf of any discourse analysist even thinking about tinkering with using computers to automate some portion of their data analysisthe examples and exercises are excellent, as is [Hammond's] exegesis of the examples- slow without becoming tedious." Discourse Studies
Product Review
''Learning to program isn't really hard,' the author claims. Teaching good programming to linguists, however, or to arts and humanities students in general, isn’t really that easy a job either, in practice. This introductory book, clear and concise as it is, should be a helpful tool at the very first stages of such an enterprise."
Kwee Tjoe Liong, Universiteit van Amsterdam"The really strong points of the book are the examples and exercises. These are almost all language-related and include useful, interesting and relevant questions and situations that the reader interested in language research will appreciate."
New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics"Surprisingly readableshould be on the bookshelf of any discourse analysist even thinking about tinkering with using computers to automate some portion of their data analysisthe examples and exercises are excellent, as is [Hammond's] exegesis of the examples- slow without becoming tedious."
Discourse Studies
Reader ReviewsI hate to write negative reviews, but this book deserves it. Both the title, "Programming for Linguists," and the subtitle, "Perl for Language Researchers," are misleading. This book is really just another "Perl for Dummies" book, and not a very good one. There is no code here that is relevant to either linguistics or language research. Linguists who want to learn Perl would be better off with an introductory text from O'Reilly.
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