Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation
This course offered a practical introduction to corpus linguistics, covering skills necessary for collecting and analysing large digital collections of text. The use of corpora was demonstrated in a variety of areas including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and language learning and teaching.
8 weeks, 3 hours per week
Tony McEnery
Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Lancaster University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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.
Syllabus
- 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
Issued on 29th January 2021
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