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Lecturer(s)
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Drábková Lenka, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Corpus linguistics and its position within the linguistic disciplines History of corpus linguistics Definition, characteristics and representativeness of corpora Types of corpora (synchronic, diachronic, spoken, written, etc.) History of English language corpora The most important British and American corpora and their possible applications (BNC, COCA, etc.) Basic and advanced corpus searching Keyword analysis Statistical processing of corpus data (frequencies, frequency lists, MI-score, T-score, etc.) Collocations and multi-word phrases in corpora and their analysis Practical analysis (morphological, lexical-semantic, sociolinguistic, syntactic, pragmatic)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Participation in classes
- 28 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 60 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 22 hours per semester
- Preparation for course credit
- 10 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| describe the position of corpus linguistics within the linguistic disciplines |
| describe the position of corpus linguistics within the linguistic disciplines |
| know the history of corpus linguistics |
| know the history of corpus linguistics |
| describe procedures for solving problems related to a corpus collection, storage, annotation and analysis |
| describe procedures for solving problems related to a corpus collection, storage, annotation and analysis |
| know how to apply corpus linguistics in practice |
| know how to apply corpus linguistics in practice |
| teaching methods |
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| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Individual work of students |
| Individual work of students |
| Skills |
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| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Exercises on PC |
| Exercises on PC |
| Individual work of students |
| Individual work of students |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
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Recommended literature
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Barth, Daniella - Schnell, Stefan. Understanding Corpus Linguistics. Abington, 2021.
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Brezina, Vaclav. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide. Cambridge, 2018.
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Egbert, Jesse - Larsson, Tove - Biber Douglas. Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User. Cambridge, 2020.
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Jones, Christian - Waller Daniel. Corpus Linguistics for Grammar: A Guide for Research. Abington, 2015.
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McEnery Tony - Hardie, Andrew. Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge, 2011.
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O?Keeffe - McMarthy Michael J. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Abington, 2022.
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Paquot, Magali - Gries, Stefan Th. (eds.). A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham, 2021.
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Szudarski, Pawel. Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary: A Guide for Research. Abington, 2018.
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Wallis, Sean. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research. Abington, 2020.
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Weisser, Martin. Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis. Malden, 2016.
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