A corpus-based investigation of the phraseology in various genres of written English with applications to the teaching of English for academic purposes [PDF]
This thesis describes an investigation into the various kinds of fixed expressions or prefabricated language which occur in certain genres of written academic English. A basic premise is that language users, when they write, remember phrases as much as,
McKenny, John Anthony
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Introducing a corpus of conversational stories. Construction and annotation of the Narrative Corpus [PDF]
Although widely seen as critical both in terms of its frequency and its social significance as a prime means of encoding and perpetuating moral stance and configuring self and identity, conversational narrative has received little attention in corpus ...
O'Donnell, Matthew Brook +1 more
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Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data in corpus development [PDF]
Recent advances in the availability of ever larger and more varied electronic datasets, both historical and modern, provide unprecedented opportunities for corpus linguistics and the digital humanities.
Säily, Tanja +5 more
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Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics
This paper examines the relationship between corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics from a variety of standpoints. We consider the nature of the fit between particular theoretical approaches and the three areas in which corpus linguistics has ...
Barlow, George
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From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure [PDF]
This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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Challenges of releasing audio material for spoken data : The case of the London–Lund Corpus 2
This article aims to describe key challenges of preparing and releasing audio material for spoken data and to propose solutions to these challenges.
Johansson, Victoria +12 more
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Linguistic Complexity: English vs. Polish, Text vs. Corpus
We analyze the rank-frequency distributions of words in selected English and Polish texts. We show that for the lemmatized (basic) word forms the scale-invariant regime breaks after about two decades, while it might be consistent for the whole range of ranks for the inflected word forms.
Jaroslaw Kwapien +2 more
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<p>Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural corpora), its body of "real world" text.
Mahmudova, Dildora
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Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based analysis. [PDF]
This paper reports work on an ongoing project on the representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. In recent years, the issue of refugees and asylum seekers entering the UK has has attracted intense media and political discussion. As the
Gabrielatos, Costas, Baker, Paul
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Corpus Linguistics: Theory Vs Methodilogy
The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the stages of formation and development of corpus linguistics. The purpose of the article is to analyze various scientific approaches to the scientific significance of this linguistic discipline and ...
Kamo P. Chilingaryan
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