APPLIED CORPUS LINGUISTICS

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APPLIED CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Eniko Csomay
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1. ANALYZING LANGUAGE USE PATTERNS

• for linguistic structure
• of one or more texts
• of an individual authors style
• of one or more social groups

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2. ASSOCIATION PATTERNS IN LANGUAGE USE

• 2.1 Investigating the use of an individual
  linguistic feature
• Linguistic associations of the feature
• Lexical associations
• Grammatical associations / constructions
• Non-linguistic associations of the feature
• Distribution across registers
• (situational varieties)
• Distribution across social varieties
• Distribution across time periods

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• 2.2 Investigating varieties or texts --
  discourse characteristics
• Linguistic association patterns
• Individual linguistic features or classes of
  features
• Co-occurrence patterns of linguistic features

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3. STATISTICAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS

• 3.1 Strength of association between two words
• Lexical associations
• 3.2 Test of significance (looking for
  differences) for individual / groups of
  lexico-grammatical items
• Difference in the use of individual or groups of
  lexico-grammatical items
• 3.3 Strength of relationship (looking for
  commonalities) between two or more numeric
  variables
• Co-occurrence patterns of a large number of
  linguistic features

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4. ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL VARIATION

• 4.1 Corpus based register studies
• Using existing models
• Overall characteristics of one register
• Variation within one register
• Developing your own multidimensional analysis to
  see variation
• Across registers
• In one register
• 4.2 Text-type studies (next time ?)

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Grammatical tags assigned to words

• u1 spkrclp1
• I pp1app1
• want vb
• you pp2pp2
• to to
• have vbhvvrb
• two cd
• books nns
• for in
• the ati

• class nn
• Um uh
• a ap
• few ap"
• ways nns
• you pp2pp2
• can mdpos
• do vbdovrb
• this dtpdem

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Four dimensions of English

• Dimension 1
• Informational versus involved production
  circumstances
• Dimension 2
• Narrative versus non-narrative discourse
• Dimension 3
• Situation dependent versus elaborated reference
• Dimension 4
• Overt expression of argumentation
• Dimension 5
• Abstract versus non-abstract style

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4. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• Symposium of Corpus Linguistics and
  Language Teaching
• organized by the
• American Association of
• Applied Corpus Linguists