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Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Susanne Wagner
Veranstaltungsart:
Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
PS Lang
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
2,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: Language, Processing and Comm.
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
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Inhalt:
Corpus linguistics is one of the empirical disciplines of linguistics. Corpora (or, in the widest sense, collections of texts) have been analysed in functional frameworks long before advances in technology made it (relatively) easy to cope with such modern “megacorpora” as the British National Corpus BNC, or COCA, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, currently at 400+ million words and counting. More recently, corpora and corpus-based research have also found their way into formalist thinking, making corpus linguistics one of the few sub-branches of linguistics to which researchers of both major theoretical schools contribute.
Corpus linguistics first and foremost involves the how-tos and whys of working with empirical language data. Two major approaches to analysing corpora start off at two opposing ends of a continuum: what comes first, the corpus or the research question? In the latter case, the corpus-based approach, the compilation of a corpus suitable for answering that question will be the second step, whereas a corpus-driven approach will use an existing corpus and look at possibly interesting areas. Comparison of corpora (such as the parallel corpora of the International Corpus of English set) can be located in between these two extremes.
In this seminar, we will look at the history of corpus linguistics before venturing into more controversial territory: Is corpus linguistics a sub-discipline of linguistics on a par with phonology or morphology? Or is it a methodology? What is a corpus? This will lead us back to such hands-on questions as how to compile a corpus, what additional (non-linguistic) information to include in a corpus, etc.
We will also address questions of data protection and come up with a rough guide of which corpus is suitable for what type of study. We will use corpus-based studies from a range of areas to illustrate the different fields researchers have worked on. In a hands-on part and in preparation for their assignments, participants can investigate different corpora (of English) currently available and determine their suitability to answer their own research questions, or explore tools that allow the collection of their own corpus. In the course of this exploratory part, practical issues such as retrieval and search methods as well as general corpus tools will also be discussed.
Some of the topic areas we could look into in our hands-on part are modal auxiliaries (would, for example, is used more frequently in some varieties of English than in others; “emerging” modals such as have to compete with established ones like must) or different preferences in complementation patterns (is prevent someone from doing something a “Britishism”, and do New Zealanders help someone do something or to do something?).
Empfohlene Literatur:
Lindquist, Hans. 2009. Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English. Edinburgh: EUP. (textbook - bitte stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie Zugang zu dem Buch haben! Anschaffung für Englisch Schwerpunkt empfohlen)
Rasinger, Sebastian. 2008. Quantitative Research in Linguistics: an introduction. London: Continuum.
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