English Corpus Linguistics Summer School

Course

In London

£ 350 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    18h

  • Duration

    3 Days

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics is a three-day introduction to corpus linguistics.
You'll gain experience with a state-of-art corpus and an understanding of basic statistical ideas.
It's aimed at students of language and linguistics and teachers of English. You'll need a basic knowledge of English linguistics and grammar.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

After attending the course you'll be able to:
confidently use the ICE-GB and DCPSE corpora in your research
apply basic statistical procedures and, most importantly, understand the results
understand the core concepts in analysis which have general purposes beyond the study of language - these include research methods and principles of statistical inference

The summer school is for students and teachers of the English language in colleges and universities who want to acquire a knowledge of basic concepts and methodologies used in English corpus linguistics.

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2018

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Subjects

  • English
  • Linguistics methodology
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • English Language
  • Issues in corpus
  • Scope of corpus linguistics
  • Syntax and semantics
  • ICE-GB
  • DCPSE
  • Elements of statistics

Course programme

Over the three days, you'll learn about:

  • the scope of corpus linguistics, and how we can use it to study the English language
  • key issues in corpus linguistics methodology
  • how to use corpora to analyse issues in syntax and semantics
  • basic elements of statistics
  • how to navigate large and small corpora, particularly ICE-GB and DCPSE

English Corpus Linguistics Summer School

£ 350 VAT inc.