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Lecturer(s)
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Ježková Šárka, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Huschová Petra, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Corpus linguistics in relation to other approaches to language. Corpora, their design and structure. Types of corpora and principles of creating them. Process of tagging, lemmatization. Concordancing packages as tools for working with corpora. British National Corpus and other English language corpora. Language analysis and interpretation of findings. Corpus linguistics and second language acquisition.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to provide students with the detailed knowledge concerning the methods of linguistic research in the field of corpus linguistics, with the emphasis on real analysis of language corpora and interpretation of findings.
Students will be able to work with large English language corpora and on the basis of the findings will be able to describe the language from the point of view of the use of vocabulary, grammar and discourse structure.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Work-related product analysis
active participation (maximum 2 classes can be missed) assignments according to instructions specified in lessons final assessment is based on a practical corpus analysis using electronic concordancers and its presentation
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Recommended literature
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Adolphs, Svenja, Carter, Ronald, A. Spoken corpus linguistics: from monomodal to multimodal. London: Routledge, 2013.
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Baker, Paul and Tony McEnery (eds.). Corpora and discourse studies: integrating discourse and corpora. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-43172-1.
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BAKER, Paul (ed.). Contemporary corpus linguistics.. London: Continuum, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8264-9610-2.
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Biber, Douglas a Randi Reppen. The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Crawford, William J. and Eniko Csomay. Doing corpus linguistics. ew York ; London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Flowerdew, Lynne and Václav Br?ezina. Learner Corpus Research: New Perspectives and Applications. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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Ježková, Šárka, Černá, Monika and Jaroslava Ivanová (eds.). Learner Corpora and English Acquisition: A Collection of Studies. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015.
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Jones, Christian, Shelley Byrne and Nicola Halenko. Successful Spoken English: Findings from Learner Corpora. New York. 2018.
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McCarthy, Michael . The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-62263-9.
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McEnery, Tony. Corpus-based language studies : an advanced resource book. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0-415-28623-9.
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Scott, Michael. WordSmith Tools Version 6. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software, 2012.
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