#LA-04-10 Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Lancaster UniversityDescription
Learn how to build and query corpora in this practical course
On this course, you’ll get a practical introduction to corpus linguistics, an extremely versatile methodology of language analysis using computers.
You’ll build the skills necessary to collect and analyse large digital collections of text (corpora).
You’ll be introduced to a number of topics demonstrating the use of corpora in areas as diverse as discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and language learning and teaching.
What topics will you cover?
- Introduction to corpus linguistics and basic techniques: concordancing
- Further corpus techniques: collocation and keywords
- Corpus-based discourse analysis
- Building a corpus: tagging and processing data
- Sociolinguistics: analysing BNC1994 and BNC2014
- Textbook and dictionary construction
- Language learning and corpus linguistics
- Swearing extravaganza: looking at language and society
Who will you learn with?
Has been working for over 20 years to help pioneer new ways to use computers to analyse very large collections of language data.
Corpus linguist, lead developer of #LancsBox.
Who developed the course?
Lancaster University is a collegiate university, with a global reputation as a centre for research, scholarship and teaching with an emphasis on employability.
What Will I Learn?
- Interpret corpus data using techniques such as concordancing, collocation and keywords.
- Describe the main methodological underpinnings behind corpus linguistics.
- Apply corpus linguistic techniques to the analysis of different types of data.
- Collect own corpora.
- Design research studies using corpus methods.
- Explain corpus methods as well as a range of applications of this versatile methodology.
- Perform corpus analysis using a range of corpus tools such as #LancsBox, CQPweb, USAS and BNClab.
Topics for this course
How to analyse a corpus – practical activity
Starting with #LancsBox
Downloading and running #LancsBox00:04:37
Loading and importing data into #LancsBox00:05:18
#LancsBox: KWIC00:04:55
#LancsBox: simple and advanced searches00:03:39
Searching corpora in #LancsBox: Practical activity 1
Practical activity 1: Answers
Technical and other issues with #LancsBox
In conversation with Elena Semino
More information about corpus linguistics
It was an amazing course. It covered major basic topics and cleared my concepts.
Very fun and useful to learn, whether for personal interest or as a starting point for the subject.
The course is a really nice introduction to the subject, from someone who has had zero previous exposure to it.
As a beginner in the subject of linguistics, I found the course very intuitive and thought provoking. Definitely looking forward to learning more.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for anyone with an interest in the study of language.