UCJAJNP025 Introduction to corpus linguistics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. René Kron, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. René Kron, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in linguistics at the bachelor's level
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with the specifics of the language corpus, research methods and possible use in various uses of the language. Emphasis is on comparison with traditional linguistic approaches and their weaknesses.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- navigate the field of corpus linguistics, know its development and potential;
- know and work with different types of language corpora;
- carry out independent language research using language corpora;
Syllabus
  • 1. Methods and goals of corpus approach 2. Quantitative and qualitative analysis 3. English language corpora and tools 4. Language corpus and lexicological analysis 5. Distribution of lexical units and their meanings 6. Language corpus and grammar analysis 7. Grammatical categories and structures and their functions within genre occurrence 8. Lexical grammar and language corpus 9. Lexical-grammatical associations and structures 10. Language corpus and language genres 11. Multidimensional analysis 12. Language corpus and error problems 13. Current state of research
Literature
    required literature
  • Egbert, J., Biber, D., Larsson, T. Doing Linguistics with a Corpus. CUP: 2020
  • Zufferey, S. Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Wiley-ISTE: 2020
  • Martínez Oncins, J.L. ed., Current Trends in Corpus Linguistics, Peter Lang: 2020
  • Collins Curtis, L. Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication. Routledge: 2019
    recommended literature
  • Wallis, S. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach. Routledge:2020
  • Barlow, M. Corpus Linguistics. Available at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
  • Ball , C. N. Tutorial: Concordance and Corpora. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, individual and group projects, presentations
Assessment methods
Compulsory participation in seminars min. 75%
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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