Osnova témat

  • Úvod

  • 1. Introduction

    Basic info

    time: Thursday 12:30 - 2:00 pm

    room: S131 (main faculty building, located in the back wing, accessible from the courtyard)

    structure: 45 minutes lecture + 45 minutes seminar

    Timetable

    1.         5/10     Introduction to the course, first reading assignment

    2.         12/10    History and development of language corpora (pre-electronic, 1st generation, 2nd generation)

    3.         19/10    Corpus characteristics and design (incl. annotation, lemmatization, tagging), types of corpora

    4.         26/10    Basic notions of corpus linguistics (frequency, distribution, representativeness, concordance etc.)

    5.         2/11      Corpora in grammar and diachronic studies

    6.         9/11      Corpora in lexical studies and lexicography

    7.         16/11    Corpora in contrastive linguistics and translation studies

    8.         23/11    Corpora in stylistics and literary studies

    9.         30/11    Corpora in discourse studies (MD-CADS)

    10.       7/12      Corpora in language learning and teaching (L1, L2)

    11.       14/12    Corpora in forensic linguistics

    12.       21/12    Corpora in sociolinguistics

    13.       5/1/17   Final test (additional dates upon request)

  • 2. History and development of language corpora (pre-electronic, 1st generation, 2nd generation)

    • Teubert, W. (2004). Language and corpus linguistics. In Halliday, Teubert, Yallop & Čermáková, Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics, pp. 96-112.

      passage called Corpus linguistics: a different look at language

  • 3. Corpus characteristics and design (incl. annotation, lemmatization, tagging), types of corpora

  • 4. Basic notions of corpus linguistics (frequency, distribution, representativeness, concordance etc.)

    • Stubbs, M. (2002). 2. Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts. In M. Stubbs, Words and Phrases, pp 24-53. Oxford: Blackwell.

  • 5. Corpora in grammar and diachronic studies

    • Römer, U. (2009). The inseparability of lexis and grammar. Corpus linguistic perspectives. In Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 7, pp 141-163.

  • 6. Corpora in lexical studies and lexicography

    • (A short summary + a study)

      Lindquist, H. (2009). Looking for lexis. In Corpus Lingustics and the Description of English (pp. 51-57). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

      Alsina, V. & DeCesaris, J. (2002). Bilingual lexicography, overlapping polysemy, and corpus use. In Bengt Altenberg & Sylviane Granger, Lexis in Contrast (pp. 215-229), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  • 7. Corpora in contrastive linguistics and translation studies

    • Chesterman, A. (2004). Hypotheses about Translation Universals. In Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001, pp. 1-13.

  • 8. Corpora in stylistics and literary studies

    • Culpeper, J. (2009). Keyness. Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 14:1, 29–59.

  • 9. Corpora in discourse studies (MD-CADS)

    • Partington, A. & Marchi, A. (2015). Using corpora in discourse analysis. In Biber, D. & R. Reppen (Eds.),  Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. (pp. 216-234). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • 10. Corpora in language learning and teaching (L1, L2)

    • O’Keeffe et al. (2008): How have corpora influenced language teaching? In From Corpus to Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-30

      + model exercises

  • 11. Corpora in forensic linguistics

    • Olsson, J. (2009). Word Crime: Solving Crime Through Forensic LinguisticsBloomsbury Academic, pp. 7-10, 23-34, 41-44.

  • 12. Corpora in sociolinguistics

    • McEnery, T., Xiao, R. & Tono, Y. (2006): Swearing in modern British English. In Corpus-Based Language Studies, Routledge, pp. 264-286.

  • 13. Final test