Enrollment year
2009/2010
Academic discipline
L-LIN/12 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (22/02/2010 - 29/05/2010)
Lesson hours
30 lesson hours
Prerequisites
No special prerequisites apply.
Learning outcomes
Students will learn how to carry out linguistic analyses of text corpora aimed at identifying lexico-grammatical features relative to varieties and genres, as well as undertake stylistic analyses of individual authors.
Course contents
The course offers an excursus of the most recent theories and methodologies in English Corpus Linguistics with the aim of providing students with versatile language analysis tools, which are increasingly used by the international scientific community. In particular, foundational notions will be introduced and applied to language data, including corpus design and representativeness, mark-up and annotation, concordances and phraseology, word patterning and co-selection, (particularly collocation, colligation, semantic prosody and semantic preference), frequency distributions and tests of statistical significance, corpus comparability.
Teaching methods
Seminars and lectures and recitation classes (oral academic skills)
Reccomended or required readings
Set text:
McEnery, Anthony, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono, 2006. Corpus-Based Language Studies: An advanced resource book. London/New York: Routledge
Articles/pages from:
Sinclair, John 2004. Trust the Text: Language, corpus and discourse. London: Routledge
Sinclair, John 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Baker, Paul 2006. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum
Some activities from:
Sinclair, John 2003. Reading Concordances. London: Pearson Longman
Assessment methods
Evaluation will consist in a written paper on an original piece of work together with its oral discussion.
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