English Corpus Linguistics Summer School
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Intermediate
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Location
London
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Class hours
18h
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Duration
3 Days
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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.
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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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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