Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

Offers a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities

• FREE online course
• Duration: 8 weeks
• 3 hours pw
• Certificates available

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ABOUT THE COURSE

The course aims to:

• Equip those taking the course with skills necessary for collecting and analysing large digital collections of text (corpora).
• Provide educational support for those who want to use the corpus method.
• Demonstrate the use of corpus linguistics in the humanities, especially History.
• Give a sense of the incredibly wide uses that corpora have been put to.
• Allow those with an interest in language, who have not heard of the corpus approach before, a new way of looking at language.
• Demonstrate that corpus approaches to social science can offer valuable insight into social reality by investigating the use and manipulation of language in society.

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