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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

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