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| IDE5230 | Corpus Linguistics Research Methods | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Asssist. Prof. Dr. Öznur SEMİZ | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | In order to give students a full understanding of corpus linguistics, its scope is going to be discussed. Later issues related to the design, development and analysis of corpora will be presented. Students are going to be informed about the software and tools that have been developed in order to carry out corpus linguistics research. Kinds of research questions that can and have been addressed using corpus methods and tools will be discussed by making use of published research studies in the field.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Define corpus linguistics and corpus.
| 4,6,11,13,18,19 | 1,5,6 | | PO - 2 : | Compile a corpus for purposes of linguistic analysis.
Conduct research using existing corpora. | 4,6,10,11,13,18,19 | 1,5,6 | | PO - 3 : | Conduct research using existing corpora. | 4,6,10,11,13,18,19 | 1,5,6 | | PO - 4 : | Use computer programs designed for corpus linguistics for linguistic inquiry.
| 4,6,10,11,13,18,19 | 1,5,6 | | PO - 5 : | Define basic terminology related to corpus linguistics. | 4,6,10,11,18,19 | 1,5,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Definition of corpus and corpus linguistics terms and its scope.
The role of computers in corpus linguistics.
Methods and principles of developing corpora.
Analysis of existing corpora.
Analyses of English language using copur linguistics methods in terms of
vocabulary
grammar
spoken language
language change
Methods of corpus analysis
Applications of corpus linguistics
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Overview of Corpus Linguistics, its scope, goals and methods.
| | | Week 2 | Overview of Corpus Linguistics, its scope, goals and methods. | | | Week 3 | Overview of Corpus Linguistics, its scope, goals and methods. | | | Week 4 | The Design and Development of Corpora | | | Week 5 | Pre-electronic corpora
Electronic corpora
Examples of first generation corpora
| | | Week 6 | Corpora for specialized purposes
Second generation mega-corpora
| | | Week 7 | Corpus Analysis: annotation and processing,
| | | Week 8 | Tagging, norming unit of analysis in corpus design,
| | | Week 9 | Corpus search and retrieval software, | | | Week 10 | Implications and applications of corpus-based analysis, | | | Week 11 | Statistics, significance tests: | | | Week 12 | Corpus-based descriptions of English: Lexicography
| | | Week 13 | Corpus-based descriptions of English: Grammar
| | | Week 14 | Corpus-based descriptions of English: pragmatics and discourse
| | | Week 15 | Final project presentations | | | Week 16 | Final project presentations | | | |
| 1 | Kennedy, G. (1998) An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. London: Longman | | | |
| 1 | Lindquist, H. (2009). Corpus Linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 06/11/2013 | 02,00 | 50 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 13 | 18/12/2013 | 02,00 | 30 | | Presentation | 7
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| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 16 | 48 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Proje | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 104 |
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