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420001 SE Corpora in Linguistic Research (2015S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 42 - Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Doktoratsstudium
Continuous assessment of course work
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Language: English

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Erster Termin: 10.03.2015, Letzter Termin: 30.06.2015; Di. wtl. von 10.03.2015 bis 30.06.2015 von 16.00-18.00 Uhr; Ort: t.b.a. Institut für Anglistik

  • Tuesday 10.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 17.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 24.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 14.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 21.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 28.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 05.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 12.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 19.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 02.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 09.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 16.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 23.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Tuesday 30.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course focuses on the use of corpora for answering specific linguistic research questions. It is divided into two parts. The first part consists of a general introduction to the use of corpora and the discussion of specific issues of corpus linguistic research based on weekly readings of select articles and book chapters. The second part will provide students with the opportunity to present corpus linguistic aspects of their PhD project in class and discuss them with the other participants.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance, reading & class participation 20%
In-class presentation 40%
Written paper (of approx. 3000 words) 40%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

to develop participants' knowledge and skills to carry out a corpus based linguistic analysis as part of their PhD project
to develop a critical awareness and understanding of the advantages and limitations of corpora for linguistic study
to develop the ability to critically evaluate existing corpus studies in their use and analysis of corpus data

Examination topics

Classroom instruction, weakly readings and discussion, project presentations, written paper.

Reading list

Aarts, Bas, Joan Close and Sean Wallis. 2013. Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change. In Aarts, Bas et al. (eds.) The English verb phrase: Corpus mepthodology and current change. Cambridge: CUP.

Gries, Stefan. 2010. Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics. A love-hate relationship? Not necessarily... International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15 (3): 327-343.

Gries, Stefan. 2011. Corpus data in usage-based linguistics. What's the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions? In Mario Brdar, Stefan Gries & Milena ´ic Fuchs (eds.), Cognitive linguistics: convergence and expansion, 237-256. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gries, Stefan and John Newman. 2013. Creating and using corpora. In Podesva, R. J. and D. Sharma (eds.) Research methods in linguistics. Cambridge: CUP, 257-287.

Hardie, A. and T. McEnery. 2010. On two traditions in corpus linguistics, and what they have in common. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15(3): 384-394.

Hinrichs, L. and B. Szmrecsanyi, 2007. Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora. English Language and Linguistics 11(3): 437-474.

Lindquist, H. 2010. Corpus linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh: EUP

McEnery, Tony & Costas Gabrielatos. English Corpus Linguistics. In: Aarts, Bas and April McMahon (eds.) The Handbook of English Linguistics. London: Blackwell.

Meyer, Ch. 2002. English Corpus Linguistics. An introduction. Cambridge: CUP (chapter 5: Analyzing a corpus)

Nelson, Gerald, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts. 2002. Exploring natural language. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Ch 8: case studies using ICE-GB,h. 9: Principles of experimental design)

Smith, N and E. Seoane. 2013. Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus. In Krug, M. and J. Schlüter. 2013. Research methods in language variation and change. Cambridge: CUP, 212-227.

Wallis, Sean. That vexed problem of choice: Reflections on experimental design and statistics with corpora. Ms. University College London.

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