Sunday, August 23, 2009

Corpus

• CORPUS
From Corpus to Classroom

WHAT IS CORPUS?

• What is Corpus?
A corpus is a collection of texts, written or spoken, which is stored on a computer.
A corpus is a principled collection of texts available for qualitative and quantitive analysis.
It must represent something and its merits will often be judged on how representative it is.

WHAT CAN WE USE FROM IT?

• COLLOCATIONS
Words that collocate with another and no other:
Depend on
Look up
Wooden box (ADJECTIVE+NOUN)

• WORDS/CHUNKS
A SMALL COMPONENT OF LANGUAGE:
I
YOU
I DON’T KNOW
A LOT OF
ONE OF THE
I MEAN
THE

• DISCOURSE MARKERS
OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS
YOU KNOW
I MEAN
ANYWAY
MIND YOU
WELL

• FREQUENCY
THE RANGE IN WHICH A WORD IS REPEATED IN CERTAIN DISCOURSE
S1—S2—S3
W1—W2—W3

• REGISTER
FORMAL/INFORMAL/COLLOQUIAL
TECHNICAL

3 comments:

  1. I will. The thing is that I didn't know what I had to do, so I just wrote some words jajaja
    Thanks! See ya!
    =)

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  2. Hi Carola,
    Hey! is it normal that you haven't posted me yet?
    I checked some of my classmates' blogs and you have commented already but I don't have any post from you... you do have my address, right?
    I would appreciate you answer my doubt...
    See you around,
    Nicole.

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  3. hi, well...I am not sure you got my mail.
    here is my blog

    http://marce-lexico.blogspot.com/

    see you.
    Marcela Cabañas Gac

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