ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The aim of this course is to introduce the field of corpus linguistics and corpus-based methodology for the linguistic study of English. General issues about the design, collection and analysis of corpus material will be discussed. In practical sessions students will learn how to search and analyse text corpora using software tools. Students will develop the ability to describe and discuss the extent to which language usage varies and can be tracked with reference to genuine examples attested in corpora.
1. Introduction (description vs. theory; corpus vs. computational linguistics; brief history of corpus linguistics).
2. What is a corpus? (defining a corpus; types of corpora; corpus resources).
3. Corpus design and compilation (size and representativeness, etc.).
4. Corpus annotation (tagging, parsing, other types of annotation).
5. Data retrieval (software tools, concordances, wildcards, keywords, word lists, etc.).
6. Data analysis (quantitative and qualitative analyses; normalized frequencies; frequency distribution; statistical significance).
7. Applications of corpora for the linguistic analysis of English.
8. Hands-on demonstrations with a selection of corpora.
- Aarts, Jan, Pieter de Haan & Nelleke Oostdijk (eds.). 1993. English language corpora: Design, analysis and exploitation. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Baker, Paul. 2010. Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Baker, Paul, Andrew Hardie & Tony McEnery. 2006. A glossary of corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad & Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus linguistics. Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge: C.U.P.
- Biber, Douglas & Randi Reppen (eds.). 2015. The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cantos, Pascual. 2011. Statistical methods in language and linguistic research. London: Equinox.
- Hoffmann, Sebastian, Stefan Evert, Nick Smith, David Lee & Ylva Berglund Prytz. 2008. Corpus linguistics with BNCweb - a practical guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Hunston, Susan. 2002. Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kennedy, Graeme. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. London: Longman.
- Kilgariff, Adam & Gregory Grefenstette. 2003. Introduction to the special issue on the web as corpus. Computational Linguistics 29(3). 333-347.
- Lavid, Julia. 2005. Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías. Nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI. Madrid: Cátedra.
- Lindquist, Hans. 2009. Corpus linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Lüdeling, Anke & Merja Kytö (eds.). 2008. Corpus linguistics. An international handbook. Volume I. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
- McEnery, Tony & Andrew Wilson. 1996. Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- McEnery, Tony, Richard Xiao & Yukio Tono. 2006. Corpus-based language studies. An advanced resource book. London: Routledge.
- Meyer, Charles. 2002. English corpus linguistics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.). 2003. The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mukherjee, Joybrato. 2004. The state of the art in corpus linguistics: Three book-length perspectives. English Language and Linguistics 8(1). 103-119.
- Oakes, Michael. 1998. Statistics for corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/148.
- Stubbs, Michael. 1996. Text and corpus analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
With this course students will acquire skills in:
- The principles and methodology of English corpus linguistics.
- The practical use of linguistic corpora and related software.
- The discussion of specialized literature on corpus linguistics.
- The presentation of research results.
Competences: G01, G02, G03, G04, G05,G06, G07, G08, G09, E01, E02, E14.
- Lectures on the role of corpus linguistics as a framework/methodology for linguistic investigation.
- Seminars and hands-on sessions with software tools and corpora for text analysis (available at computer clusters and via internet).
- Oral presentations of the student’s written piece of work.
- eLearning platform for summative and formative assessment.
- Handouts will be provided to accompany lectures and seminars.
In case scenario 2 ('distancing') or scenario 3 ('lockdown') were decreed, the contingency plans provided in the 'Comments' section will apply.
First opportunity:
15% Active participation in the sessions. Please note that attendance is compulsory.
55% Exercises and programmed readings.
30% Oral presentation of a case study. Students will have to provide a handout and a PowerPoint presentation.
Exercises as well as the handout and the PowerPoint presentation for the case study will be submitted via the teaching platform.
Second opportunity:
Students will have to repeat only those parts (exercises and case study) in which they did not reach a pass in the first opportunity. In the second opportunity the case study will be submitted as a written essay (between 2,000-3,000 words, excluding references).
Students officially exempt from class attendance:
Students will have to hand in all course exercises (60%) and submit an essay on a case study (between 2,000-3,000 words, excluding references) (40%).
All exercises and tests will be done in English. Overall correctness in language and in the use of formal conventions is indispensable. Therefore, grammatical and orthographic mistakes will be penalized.
In case scenario 2 (distancing) or scenario 3 (lockdown) were decreed, the contingency plans provided in the 'Comments' section will apply.
4 hours/week.
None.
Students are expected to complete all assignments and readings suggested by the lecturer(s), and to come to the sessions prepared to discuss them. Students must visit the eLearning platform for the course regularly. Students are expected to check their university email on a regular basis: announcements and last-minute changes will be notified via the teaching platform.
Academic misconduct (including cheating, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion or fabrication of results) will not be tolerated and will be penalized, according to the 'Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións'.
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR SCENARIO 2:
Teaching methodology: If necessary, face-to-face interaction will be replaced (partially or totally) by online sessions through Microsoft Teams.
Assessment system: The system described above for scenario 1 ('new normal') also applies here. If necessary, student presentations will take place by Microsoft Teams.
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR SCENARIO 3:
Teaching methodology: Face-to-face interaction will be replaced by online sessions through Microsoft Teams.
Assessment system: The system described above for scenario 1 ('new normal') also applies here. Student presentations will take place by Microsoft Teams.
Maria Jose Lopez Couso
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811891
- mjlopez.couso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Belen Mendez Naya
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811902
- belen.mendez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Thursday | |||
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| 18:30-19:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C08 |
| 19:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C08 |
| 05.26.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D03 |
| 05.26.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D03 |
| 07.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D03 |
| 07.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D03 |