Corpus
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like158 views
This document discusses corpus linguistics, which is the study of language through large collections of electronic texts known as corpora. It explains that corpus linguistics involves collecting and analyzing real-world text samples to derive abstract rules of natural language or relate languages. Originally done manually, corpora are now largely compiled automatically. The analysis consists of applying schemes to texts and mapping terms to theoretical models. Corpus linguistics allows linguists to perform experiments on datasets and explore different perspectives than those of the original compilers.
Corpus
- 2. The study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world" text This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely derived by an automated process.
- 3. Methods consists of the application of a scheme to texts Abstraction consists of the translation (mapping) of terms in the scheme to terms in a theoretically motivated model or dataset consists of statistically probing, manipulating and generalising from the dataset
- 4. other users can then perform experiments on the corpus Linguists with other interests and differing perspectives than the originators' can exploit this work corpus linguists are able to treat the corpus as a locus of linguistic debate, rather than as an exhaustive fount of knowledge