Corpus as a tool of scientific research
- Credits: 10
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 16sC
- Semester: winter
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
The aim of the subject is to make the student informed with the corpus linguistic discipline and with options of using the corpus analysis method.
Knowledge:
By means of completing subject, the student will gain enough knowledge about corpus linguistic as a language discipline, knows and can use the terminology of this scientific discipline adequately, and has general overview about existing types of corpus and specific corpus, mainly from Slovak but also from Czech, English, and German language environments.
Competencies:
Student is able to identify and assess options (but also borders) of using corpus, in other words, methods of corpus analysis and is able to adapt this method for the needs of accomplishing concrete research aims.
Skills:
After accomplishing the subject, the student is able to work with the corpus tools and use them effectively in the praxis, in other words, in the context of depicturing problematics of own dissertation topic.
Indicative content
- Corpus linguistics as a part of the language disciplines and terminology of corpus linguistics
- The term corpus, types of corpus, chosen existing corpuses
- Options of managing corpuses: method of corpus analysis, corpus tools, searching in corpus, assessment of found data
- Working with corpuses in the context of realization of specific research aim
Support literature
Odporúčaná literatúra:
Základná literatúra:
1. STEFANOWITSCH, A. (2020): Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
2. BARTH, D. – SCHNELL, S. (2021): Understanding Corpus Linguistics. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Doplňujúca literatúra:
1. HARRINGTON, K., RONAN, P. (2023): Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2. LU, X. (2022): Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, and Findings. New York: Routledge.
3. TUHÁRSKA, Z. (2016): Quality translations of legal texts in the context of the methods of corpus analysis. In European Journal of Social and Human Sciences, 2016, vol. 10, no. 2 (2016), pp. 82-88
4. WEISSER, M. (2016): Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Date of approval: 17.01.2025
Date of the latest change: 17.12.2023