Elective course:Introduction to Corpus Linguistics 3200-L2-PF-WJK
Syllabus
PART I: Issues in corpus creation and processing
1. a glimpse on corpus linguistics
2. definition of a corpus, types of corpora, history of corpus linguistics, major projects, key terms
3. creating your own corpus, copy-right issues, corpus annotation
4. methods of corpus linguistics, statistical tests
5. corpus tools
PART II: Corpora in language studies
1. corpora in language research (lexis, grammar, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, stylistics)
2. corpora and special languages
3. corpora and language acquisition
4. corpora and language teaching
5. corpora and lexicography, corpora and translation
6. other applications: culture studies, forensic linguistics
PART III: Students’ presentations
Methods of teaching and learning
- presentations by the instructor (in-class or on-line)
- selected chapters from the literature
- practical tasks consisting of corpus data analysis (e-learning)
- students' projects
If classroom learning is impossible, the classes will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools: Moodle and Google Meet.
Student's workload:
Participation in classes 30 h
Preparation for the classes 30 h
Total: 60 h
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student:
- is familiar with basic concepts in corpus linguistics
- is aware of the most important corpus projects in the world
- knows the different methods of corpus analysis and can apply them
- knows a number of electronic tools for processing corpus data and can use them in language analysis
- can build his own corpus and to use it in his/her own language research.
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods
• active participation in classes (10%)
• completion of all tasks (20%)
• preparation (in pairs) of a project consisting of (70%)
1. building your own mini-corps with a specific theme
2. analysis of collected data (three different types of analysis)
3. presentation of results
Assessment criteria
100%-93,3% 5
93%- 86,6% 4,5
86%-76,6% 4
76%-70% 3,5
69%-60% 3
below 60% 2
Criteria for the September session identical to the June session
Practical placement
not applicable
Bibliography
in Polish
Chlebda, W. (Ed.). (2013). Na tropach korpusów: W poszukiwaniu optymalnych zbiorów tekstów. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego.
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (Ed.). (2005). Podstawy językoznawstwa korpusowego. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.
in English
Biber, D., & Reppen, R. (Eds.). (2015). The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139764377
McEnery, T., & Brezina, V. (2022). Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107110625
McEnery, T., & Hardie, A. (2011). Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.
O’Keeffe, A., & McCarthy, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (2nd edition). Routledge.
Paquot, M., & Gries, S. T. (Eds.). (2021). A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Springer.
Additional information
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