Delivered at:: School of Fundamental and Applied Linguistics

Course type:: Compulsory course

When:: 1 year, 2 module

Instructor

Товкес Мария Юрьевна

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This course is aimed to teach students basic terms of corpus linguistics and language corpora being a resource for linguistic analysis. The course presents a survey of existing English-language corpora and teaches the use of variety of corpus tools. The methods and tools of corpus linguistics are also used for the analysis of the sample. The main functions of the programs AntConc, Voyant tools and the text corpora BNC, COCA are demonstrated. Students will get acquainted with the software that allows them to analyze text corpora. During the classes, students will master practical skills of working with corpus tools, in particular, drawing up a search prescription and interpreting search results.

Master’s Programme 'Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics'

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Corpus Linguistics

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