Course title

Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Instructor

Su Heng

Instructor’s profile

Dr. Su Heng obtained his PhD degree from Curtin University in Australia. His research interests are in such areas as Cross-Cultural Communication, Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics.

Course goals

This course aims to equip the students with some basic knowledge in the area of Corpus Linguistics and provide them with some hands-on experiences in using common tools, which will hopefully prepare them for further research in their own specific field of studies.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include representativeness, balance and sampling of a corpus, corpus markup, corpus annotation, multilingual corpora, using available corpora, DIY corpora

Corpora and language studies, etc.

Assessment

Student Presentation(40%)

+Course Paper(60%)

Reference books

McEnery， Anthony，Xiao， Richard & Tono，Yukio. 2005. Corpus-Based Language Studies-An advanced resource book . Routledge, London

杨惠中等，2002.《语料库语言学导论》，上海外语教育出版社

Tognini-Bonelli, E. 2001. Corpus Linguistics at work. Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s

Working language

English

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