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Lecturer(s)
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Ježková Šárka, 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, discourse structure and of the processes of second language acquisition.
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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
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Recommended literature
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BIBER, D., CONRAD, S., REPPEN, R. Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press,ISBN 0-521-49957-7., 1998.
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Čermák, F. Základy lingvistické metodologie. Karolinum Praha, 2002.
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HUNSTON, S. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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SINCLAIR, J. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-437144-1, 1991.
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ŠULC, M. Korpusová lingvistika. Karolinum Praha, 1999.
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WICHMANN, A. Teaching and language corpora. London : Longman,ISBN 0-582-27609-8., 1997.
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