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Part 1: why use a corpus?

A brief review of why you might want to use a corpus and decisions to make when building a corpus.

Tony McEnery gives a brief review of why you might want to use a corpus and decisions to make when building a corpus.

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Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

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