Exploring English Corpus Linguistics - ALINV371M

• Title: Exploring English Corpus Linguistics
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (6)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=642
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: MALAM7CF (12.11.2019)

The course presents corpus linguistics primarily as a method rather than as a discipline, focussing on various ‘corpus-informed’ approaches in English and contrastive linguistics. The seminars combine an introduction to the key concepts and theoretical issues of corpus linguistics with hands-on experience working with corpora of English and, partly, Czech.

Course completion requirements

Last update: MALAM7CF (12.11.2019)

• Active participation in seminars (up to 3 absences)
• A student’s project, including a presentation of the results during the seminar at the end of the semester

Literature

Last update: MALAM7CF (12.11.2019)

Literatura:
Baker, P. (2006) Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London / New York: Continuum.
Baker, P., Hardie, A. and T. McEnery (2006) A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press.
Biber, D. and R. Reppen (2015) The Cambridge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
Hoey, M., Mahlberg, M., Stubbs, M. and W. Teubert (2007) Text, Discourse and Corpora. London: Continuum
Hunston, S. (2002) Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McEnery, T. and A. Hardie (2012) Corpus Linguistics. Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.
Scott, M. & Tribble, Ch. (2006). Textual Patterns. Key Words and Corpus Analysis in Language Education. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sinclair, J. Ed. (2004). How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sinclair, J. (2004). Trust the Text. London: Routledge.
Stubbs, M. (2002). Words and Phrases. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing

Syllabus

Last update: MALAM7CF (12.11.2019)

Syllabus:
1. The background: J.Sinclair, neo-Firthian linguistics, units of meaning, the idiom principle and the open choice principle; BNCweb
2. Colligation, pattern grammar, local grammar; the KonText interface
3. Collocation, semantic sequences; LancsBox
4. From collocation to semantic preference and discourse prosody
5. Corpus linguistics and phraseology - n-grams, lexical bundles
6. Variation: keyness, keywords, frequency lists
7. Variation: written and spoken English (Spoken BNC2014)
8. Contrastive corpus linguistics, comparable and parallel corpora, InterCorp
9. - 11. Corpus linguistic approaches to discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus stylistics, learner corpus research (topics to be specified based on the students’ field of study and interest)
12. Students’ presentations
13. Students’ presentations