ENG303 English Corpus Linguistics
Autumn 2013 (Gisle Andersen)
Teaching: Thursdays 12:15-14:00 (HF-bygget, IKT-seminarrom 264)
Course outline
Week
Date Topic
Reading
35
29/8 1.
McEnery and Hardie (2012)
chs 1&4
36
5/9 2.
37
12/9 3.
Introduction: background, key concepts
and overview of English corpus
linguistics
Analysing a corpus: the basics of
corpus linguistic methodology
Corpora and grammar
38
19/9 4.
Corpus studies of phraseology and the
lexicon
39
26/9 5.
McEnery and Hardie (2012) ch
6; Biber (2009); Stefanowitsch
and Gries (2003)
Hasselgård and Johansson
(2011)
McEnery and Hardie (2012) ch
5; Koch and Bernaisch (2013)
Andersen (2010); Baker
(2010) ch 2
Andersen (2011); Rühlemann
(2011)
Deutschmann (2006); Norrick
(2011)
Hasselgård (2006); Johansson
(2006)
Crystal (2006) ch 2;
Kilgarriff and Grefenstette
(2003)
McEnery and Hardie (2012)
chs 7-9; Gries (2012)
41
42
43
44
45
46
Learner corpora and contrastive
interlanguage analysis
10/10 6. Corpus studies of language variation
and change I
17/10 7. Corpus studies of language variation
and change II
24/10 8. Corpus studies of pragmatics and
discourse I
31/10 9. Corpus studies of pragmatics and
discourse II
7/11 10. Corpora in contrastive linguistics and
translation studies
14/11 11. Corpora, the web and computermediated communication
48 28/11 12. Corpus linguistics in the wider
scientific landscape / Summary
McEnery and Hardie (2012)
chs 2-3
Leech et al. (2009) chs 2, 4-5
Curriculum
Text book
McEnery, Tony and Andrew Hardie (2012), Corpus linguistics: Methods, theory and practice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Compendium
The compendium will be available as a PDF file on Mi side.
Andersen, Gisle (2010), 'How to use corpus linguistics in sociolinguistics', in Anne O'Keeffe
and Michael McCarthy (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics
(London and New York: Routledge), 547-61.
Andersen, Gisle (2011), 'Corpus-based pragmatics I: qualitative studies', in Wolfram Bublitz
and Neal Norrick (eds.), Foundations of Pragmatics (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter),
587-627.
Baker, Paul (2010), Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press), chapter 2.
Biber, Douglas (2009), 'A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Multiword patterns in speech and writing', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14
(3), 275-311.
Crystal, David (2006), Language and the Internet (2nd edn.; Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press), chapter 2.
Deutschmann, Mats (2006), 'Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British
National Corpus', in Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe (eds.), The changing face
of corpus linguistics (Amstedam: Rodopi), 205-21.
Gries, Stefan Th. (2012), 'Corpus linguistic, theoretical linguistics, and
cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more friutful exchanges', in Joybrato
Mukherjee and Magnus Huber (eds.), Corpus linguistics and variation in English:
Theory and description (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 41-63.
Hasselgård, Hilde (2006), '"Not now" - On non-correspondence between the cognate adverbs
now and nå', in Karin Aijmer (ed.), Pragmatic markers in contrast (Amsterdam:
Elsevier), 91-113.
Hasselgård, Hilde and Johansson, Stig (2011), 'Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage
analysis', in Fanny Meunier, et al. (eds.), A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane
Granger (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), 33-62.
Johansson, Stig (2006), 'How well can well be translated? On the English discourse particle
well and its correspondences in Norwegian and German', in Karin Aijmer and AnneMarie Simon-Vandenbergen (eds.), Pragmatic Markers in Contrast (Amsterdam:
Elsevier), 115-38.
Kilgarriff, Adam and Grefenstette, Gregory (2003), 'Introduction to the Special Issue on Web
as Corpus', Computational Linguistics, 29 (3), 1-15.
Koch, Christopher and Bernaisch, Tobias (2013), 'Verb complementation in South Asian
English(es): The range and frequency of "new" transitives', in Gisle Andersen and
Kristin Bech (eds.), English corpus linguistics: Variation in time, space and genre
(Amsterdam: Rodopi), 69-89.
Leech, Geoffrey, et al. (eds.) (2009), Change in contemporary English (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), chapters 2, 4, 5.
Norrick, Neal (2011), 'Interjections', in Gisle Andersen and Karin Aijmer (eds.), Pragmatics
of Society (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter), 243-92.
Rühlemann, Christoph (2011), 'Corpus-based pragmatics II: quantitative studies', in Wolfram
Bublitz and Neal Norrick (eds.), Foundations of pragmatics (Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton), 629-56.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Gries, Stefan Th. (2003), 'Collostructions: Investing the interaction
of words and constructions', International journal of corpus linguistics, 8 (2), 209-43.