Course: Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

If you are interested in the applications of corpus linguistic methods to historical data, you might like to check out another MOOC by Lancaster University: Shakespeare’s Language: Revealing Meanings and …

This short lecture introduces the discipline of corpus linguistics in the context of its history and present-day achievements. It is the first lecture of a lecture series from a new …

This short lecture introduces corpora as samples of language. It is a lecture from new programmes offered by Lancaster University: MA programme, PGCert in Corpus linguistics. The programmes include a …

#LancsBox offers a simple yet very powerful way of creating research reports. Using the Wizard module in #LancsBox, you can produce draft research reports automatically. The Wizard tool combines the …

In this video Vaclav Brezina interviews Doug Biber about his approach to corpus analysis. If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to hear more about Doug’s work, the following …

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

In this video Professor Tony McEnery speaks with the late Adam Kilgarriff about Corpus Linguistics. Adam was a pleasure to know and such was his commitment to his scholarship that …

Professor Tony McEnery speaks with Michael Rundell about Corpus Linguistics and dictionary construction View the whole conversation

Finally, Vaclav Brezina provides five tips for corpus building. Update your journal After the video, don’t forget to update your journal! Keep a record of what you are learning. You …

This short lecture introduces basic concepts of statistics in corpus linguistics. It is the first lecture of a lecture series on statistics from a new module on Statistics and data …

Vaclav Brezina concludes the lecture with a few notes on the synergy between variationist sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.

This presentation is an optional activity. Paul Baker discusses his work on corpus based approaches to discourse analysis. Find out more about Paul’s research

Vaclav Brezina introduces the process of corpus design and corpus building and provides an overview of this lecture.

Vaclav Brezina presents a small case study on the use of personal pronouns in Spoken BNC1994 and Spoken BNC2014.

Vaclav Brezina presents another case study on the use of possessives ‘s vs. of in Spoken BNC1994 and Spoken BNC2014. The case study demonstrates the advantages of the variationist approach …