Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

This course aims to:

• Demonstrate that corpus approaches to social science can offer valuable insight into social reality by investigating the use and manipulation of language in society.
• Equip social scientists with skills necessary for collecting and analysing large digital collections of text (corpora).
• Provide educational support for those who want to use the corpus method.
• Demonstrate the use of corpus linguistics in the humanities, especially History.
• Give a sense of the incredibly wide uses that corpora have been put to.
• Allow those with an interest in language, who have not heard of the corpus approach before, a new way of looking at language.