Hello all
For those of you wanting to get to grips with corpus linguistics - this free course led by Tony McEnery at Lancaster has just started.
James
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics
Starts TODAY - free online course, just sign up for:
Week 1 - basic introduction
Week 2 - collocation and keywords
Week 3 - case study, refugees and asylum seekers in the press
Week 4 - how to build a corpus
Week 5 - case study, the London Olympics and Paralympics, reporting thereof
Week 6 - dictionaries and textbooks
Week 7 - learner language
Week 8 - swearing
In terms of software:
Weeks 1-3: AntConc
Week 4: CLAWS and USAS
Weeks 5-8: CQPweb
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