Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation
Get a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone with an interest in the study of language.
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
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
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.
