Session 2
One-liner
Session 2 covers foundational concepts of corpus linguistics.
🎯 Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, students will be able to:
- Define corpus linguistics as an empirical methodology
- Explain key limitations of introspection in linguistic research
- Describe the role of frequency data and patterns in corpus analysis
- Identify and explain the basic steps in corpus-based research
- Reflect on their own stance toward data, intuition, and linguistic evidence
🔑 Key Concepts
- Corpus linguistics
- Balanced Corpus
- Reference Corpus
- Learner Corpus
- Corpus representativeness
- Linguistic intuition vs data
📚 Required Readings
- Stefanowitsch (2020) Ch. 1 Freely available online
- Stefanowitsch (2020) Ch. 2 Freely available online
- (Skim) Durrant (2023) Ch. 1