Week 5

Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialised texts

🌞Corpus as a collection f naturally-occurring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.

🌞We use Antconc to analyzed texts.

🌞Sources of language copora

     -http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk

     -http://corpus.byu.edu/

     -http://www.arts.chula.ac.th

🌞Designing a specialized corpus

     -Corpus size

     -Text extracts vs. full texts

     -Number of texts

     -Medium

     -Subject and text type

     -Other considerations

🌞Sources of specialised texts

     -Printed materials software

     -Word document texts

     -CD-ROMS

     -Texts on the web

     -Online databases