What are the tools of corpus linguistics?
Tools
| Tool | Description | Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| ACTRES Corpus Browser ✎ | A tool for retrieving tagged information in more than one language. | Web |
| ACTRES Corpus Manager ✎ | A corpus compilation and analysis platform with a focus on multilingual and parallel corpora. | Web |
| ACTRES Rhetorical Movel Tagger ✎ | A tool for tagging rhetorical moves. | Web |
What are corpus linguistic techniques?
In corpus linguistics, common analytical techniques are dispersion, frequency, clusters, keywords, concordance, and collocation. This part discusses how these techniques can contribute to uncovering discourse practices. It shows how CL can contribute to CDA.
What are the types of corpus linguistics?
Corpus types
- What is a corpus?
- Types of text corpora.
- Monolingual corpus.
- Parallel corpus, multilingual corpus.
- Comparable corpus.
- Diachronic corpus.
- Static corpus.
- Monitor corpus.
How do you do corpus analysis?
Introduction
- create/download a corpus of texts.
- conduct a keyword-in-context search.
- identify patterns surrounding a particular word.
- use more specific search queries.
- look at statistically significant differences between corpora.
- make multi-modal comparisons using corpus lingiustic methods.
What is concordance in corpus?
A concordance is a listing of each occurrence of a word (or pattern) in a text or corpus, presented with the words surrounding it. A simple concordance of “Key Word In Context” (KWIC) is what is usually referred to when people talk about concordances in corpus linguistics, and an example is shown in figure 3.
What is corpus linguistics examples?
An example of a general corpus is the British National Corpus. Some corpora contain texts that are sampled (chosen from) a particular variety of a language, for example, from a particular dialect or from a particular subject area. These corpora are sometimes called ‘Sublanguage Corpora’.
What is corpus linguistics used for?
Corpus Linguistics is now seen as the study of linguistic phenomena through large collections of machine-readable texts: corpora. These are used within a number of research areas going from the Descriptive Study of the Syntax of a Language to Prosody or Language Learning, to mention but a few.
What does corpus linguistics do?
Corpus linguistics encompasses the compilation and analysis of collections of spoken and written texts as the source of evidence for describing the nature, structure, and use of languages.
Why are concordances useful?
The primary motivation for the use of concordance data in modern corpus linguistics is the belief that interesting insights into the structure and usage of a language can be obtained by looking at words in real texts and seeing what patterns of lexis, grammar and meaning surround them.
What is collocation in corpus linguistics?
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.
What are the different types of corpora?
There are many different kinds of corpora. They can contain written or spoken (transcribed) language, modern or old texts, texts from one language or several languages. The texts can be whole books, newspapers, journals, speeches etc, or consist of extracts of varying length.