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Last update: UAAMALAM (11.02.2010)
seminar dealing with corpus linguistics and basic terminology, each seminar focuses on another method and/or corpus (e.g. the formulation of a query using wildcards and regular expressions in the British National Corpus applied to the study of concordances of the singular and plural; frequency statistical data and their relevance with respect to the study of discourse prosodies). The syllabus will be gradually adapted and modified depending on the composition of the seminar and the availability of corpora and corpus tools (acquisitions planned thanks to a FRVŠ grant). |
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Last update: UAAMALAM (26.01.2011)
Baker, P. (2006) Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London / New York: Continuum. Baker, P. and A. Hardie, T. McEnery (2006) A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Biber, D. et al. (1999) Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. New York: Longman. Hoffmann, S et al. (2008) Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb - a Practical Guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Hunston, S. (2002) Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McEnery, T. and R. Xiao, Y. Tono (2006) Corpus-Based Language Studies. London / New York: Routledge. Meyer, Ch. F. (2002) English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Teubert, W. and A. Čermáková (2007) Corpus Linguistics. A Short Introduction. London / New York: Continuum. + individual articles assigned during the seminar |
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Last update: UAAMALAM (29.01.2010)
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Last update: UAAMALAM (26.01.2011)
1. Introduction Historical outline, corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches, types of corpora 2. Collocation First queries with BNC: running the query, KWIC and Sentence view, ordering the results, viewing a larger context and bibliographical information, restricting the query 3. The simple query Simple query syntax, words and phrases, variation in phrases, using wildcards, proximity queries 4. Distribution and sorting Comparing results, normalized frequencies, statistical significance, dispersion and file-frequency extremes 5. Collocations Making statistical claims, association measures 6. Colligation, pattern grammar Queries based on part-of-speech and headword/lemma, tagging and parsing 7. Keywords and frequency lists Text-type and word lists, using keywords in stylistic analysis 8. Corpora of spoken language Problems of transcription, metadata, speakers’ characteristics 9. Corpora of academic spoken English Representativeness; units of meaning in spoken corpora, lexical bundles, n-grams 10. Issues in corpus design Purpose, size and representativeness, criteria of text selection, sampling, balance, homogeneity, working with self-designed corpora, Antconc, tagging 11. Corpora in contrastive research Varieties of English, parallel and comparable corpora 12. Corpora in diachronic research Corpus evidence of typological change 13. Leaving the corpus Extracting query results to an external database, presenting the results |