Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, you should be able to:
- critically examine the notion of a corpus
- understand the uses of text corpora in language research
- explore corpora with simple to more complex tools
- use a concordance program to extract data from a corpus
- design and build your own corpus
- understand how to analyse corpus data through statistical and discourse analysis methods.
Indicative Module Content:
- Corpus Linguistics applications
- Types of corpora
- Corpus design
- Tools
- Investigating a corpus (textual markers, collocates, word lists, etc.)