Course: Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

The GraphColl tool in #LancsBox identifies collocations and displays them in a table and as a collocation graph or network. It can be used, for example, to: Find the collocates …

As of September 2022, #LancsBox X is available for download with the KWIC tool only. The full version will be available by the end of 2022.

This presentation is an optional activity. How do we create spoken language corpora? Ruth Avon, who specialises in audio transcription of data for corpus linguistic analysis, discusses the joys and …

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 …

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 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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