ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The aim of this course is to introduce the field of corpus linguistics and corpus-based methodology for the linguistic study of English, paying special attention to aspects such as corpus design, collection and analysis. In the seminar sessions students will learn how to search and analyse text corpora using software tools.
1. Introduction (description vs. theory, corpus vs. computational linguistics, brief history of corpus linguistics).
2. What is a corpus? (defining a corpus, types of corpora, corpus resources).
3. Corpus design and compilation (size and representativeness, etc.).
4. Corpus annotation (tagging, parsing, other types of annotation).
5. Data retrieval (software tools, concordances, wildcards, keywords, word lists, etc.).
6. Data analysis (quantitative and qualitative analyses, normalized frequencies, frequency distribution, statistical significance).
7. Applications of corpora for the linguistic analysis of English.
8. Hands-on demonstrations with a selection of corpora.
BASIC:
- Cantos, Pascual. 2011. Statistical methods in language and linguistic research. London: Equinox.
- Lindquist, Hans. 2009. Corpus linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Hunston, Susan. 2002. Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- McEnery, Tony, Richard Xiao & Yukio Tono. 2006. Corpus-based language studies. An advanced resource book. London: Routledge.
COMPLEMENTARY:
- Aarts, Jan, Pieter de Haan & Nelleke Oostdijk (eds.). 1993. English language corpora: Design, analysis and exploitation. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Baker, Paul. 2010. Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Baker, Paul, Andrew Hardie & Tony McEnery. 2006. A glossary of corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad & Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus linguistics. Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge: C.U.P.
- Biber, Douglas & Randi Reppen (eds.). 2015. The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hoffmann, Sebastian, Stefan Evert, Nick Smith, David Lee & Ylva Berglund Prytz. 2008. Corpus linguistics with BNCweb - a practical guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Hunston, Susan. 2002. Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kennedy, Graeme. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. London: Longman.
- Kilgariff, Adam & Gregory Grefenstette. 2003. Introduction to the special issue on the web as corpus. Computational Linguistics 29(3). 333-347.
- Lavid, Julia. 2005. Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías. Nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI. Madrid: Cátedra.
- Lüdeling, Anke & Merja Kytö (eds.). 2008. Corpus linguistics. An international handbook. Volume I. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
- McEnery, Tony & Andrew Wilson. 1996. Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Meyer, Charles. 2002. English corpus linguistics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.). 2003. The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mukherjee, Joybrato. 2004. The state of the art in corpus linguistics: Three book-length perspectives. English Language and Linguistics 8(1). 103-119.
- Oakes, Michael. 1998. Statistics for corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/148.
- Stubbs, Michael. 1996. Text and corpus analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
With this course students will acquire skills in the following general and specific competences (cf. “Memoria do Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados e as Súas Aplicacións, 2ª edición", pp. 6-7: http://www.imaes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MEMORIA_ANEXOS-I-II.pdf)
G01 - Ability to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related to the various areas of English Studies, as well as to become familiar with the methodology required to solve those problems typical of this field of study.
G02 - Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G03 - Ability to use the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) efficiently within the realm of English Studies.
G04 - Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05 - Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06 - Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
G07 - Abilities to consolidate and develop the C2 linguistic competence in the spoken and written use of the English language.
G08 - Progressive autonomy in the learning process, personal/individual search for resources and information, by getting access/accessing (to) bibliographical and documentary references on the various areas that make up/define/shape English Studies.
G09 - Ability to carry out research work of an academic nature in the different realms of English Studies.
E01 - Knowledge of the main methods of linguistic research.
E02 - Knowledge of the main resources, tools and methods for linguistic research.
E14 - To know how to apply techniques and methods typical of quantitative linguistic analysis.
- Lectures on the role of corpus linguistics as a framework/methodology for linguistic investigation.
- Seminars and hands-on sessions with software tools and corpora for text analysis.
- Oral presentations of the student’s written piece of work.
- eLearning platform for summative and formative assessment.
- Handouts will be provided for the lectures and seminars.
(1) First opportunity:
- 15% Active participation in sessions. Please note that attendance is compulsory. (ASSESSED COMPETENCES: G01, G02, G05, G07, E14)
- 55% Exercises, tasks and programmed readings, which have to be submitted via the learning platform. (ASSESSED COMPETENCES: G01, G02, G03, G04, G06, G07, E01, E02, E14)
- 30% Oral presentation of a case study. Students will have to provide a handout and a Power Point presentation. (ASSESSED COMPETENCES: G02, G03, G04, G05, G06, G07, G08, G09, E01, E02, E14).
(2) Second opportunity (July):
Students will have to repeat only those parts (exercises and case study) in which they did not reach a pass in the first opportunity.
(3) Students officially exempt from class attendance:
60% Exercises, tasks and programmed readings, which have to be submitted via the learning platform.
40% Case study.
All exercises and tests will be done in English. Overall correctness in language and in the use of formal conventions is indispensable. Therefore, grammatical and orthographic mistakes will be penalized.
Total number of hours: 75
Class work: 14 hours (Lectures, 5 hours; practical seminars and students' presentations, 7 hours; tutorials, 2 hours).
Maximum number of hours of on-line work = 10 hours (Forum and debates, 4 hours, Supervision of Students' progress, 4 hours, self-assessment, 2 hours)
Autonomous individual work = 51 (Individual or group work, 11 hours; Writing activities, class presentations and additional tasks, 20 hours; Reading activities, bibliographical search, 20 hours)
None.
Students are expected to complete all assignments and readings suggested by the lecturer(s), and to come to the sessions prepared to discuss them in class. Besides, students must check the eLearning platform for the course and their university email regularly: announcements and last-minute changes will be notified via the teaching platform.
No emails using a non-institutional account will be replied by the lecturer(s), so students must contact them using their USC email account and, preferably, via the teaching platform.
Academic misconduct (including cheating, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, etc.) will not be tolerated and will be penalized, according to the 'Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións'.
Zeltia Blanco Suarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- zeltia.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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| 18:15-19:15 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C05 |
| 19:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C05 |
| 05.26.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C05 |
| 07.07.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C05 |