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    Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

    • The word corpus is derived from a Latin word “Corps”


    meaning “body”.
    • It is body or large collection of real-world text (books,
    novels, magazine, speeches, journals.)
     Definition of Corpus?:
    “ A large collection of machine readable text is known
    as corpus (plural corpora). It can be spoken or written.”
    or
    “ A large collection of language text in electronic form,
    selected to be representative of a particular language
    for linguistic research.” _Sinclair (2005)
     What is Corpus Linguistics?
    • “ Systematic study of language through large
    collections of machine readable text (corpus) is known
    as corpus linguistics.”
    OR
    • “ Study of language that involve the analysis of large
    collection of real world language data is known as
    corpus linguistics.”
    • The term corpus linguistics first appeared only in early
    1980s.
    • Sinclair and J. R Firth are leading linguist in this field.
     Examples of Corpus
    I. The Brown Corpus of Standard American English:
    The first modern, electronically readable corpus
    was the Brown corpus prepared by Nelson Francis &
    Henry Kucera in early 1960s. This corpus consists
    of one million words of American English text.
    II. The BNC ( British National Corpus): A 100 million
    word corpus of British English in early 1990s.
    III. Kolhapur corpus ( Indian English)
    IV. The London corpus of Spoken British English.
     Types of Corpus
    1. General Corpus: consists of general text, text that do
    not belong to a single text type, or subject field.
    2. Monolingual: A single language corpus often used
    to obtain lexical, grammatical info about a specific
    language.
    3. Bilingual: A corpus containing texts from two
    languages, enabling comparative analysis.
    4. Parallel: A corpus containing texts from several
    languages and their translation useful for
    translational strategies.
     Features of Corpus linguistics:
    I. Using authentic language data:
    II. Evidence based study
    III. Investigating qualitative as well as
    IV. quantitive aspect of language
     Uses
    I. Lexicography: creating dictionaries
    II. Discourse analysis
    III. Language Acquisition
    IV. Analysis of Political Discourse

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