Week 5

CORPUS

           A corpus is a large collection of texts. It is a body of written and spoker material upon which a linguistic analysis is based.

Sources or specialized texts.

 Printed materials software

 Word document texts

CD-ROMs

Texts on the Web

 Online databases

Getting started with Antconc

     Download the latest version of Antconc and watch YouTube tutorials from 

    http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.ip/antconc_index.html)

1. Run the program.

2. Open Files or Open Dir.

3. Choose the function.

4. Clear All Tools and Files before selecting opening new files.

5. Save Output to Texts File to save output.

💛Analyzing Specialized Corpus.

     1. Terminologies and collocation

     2. Local grammar

         for example: "go" is  used as plural than singular.

                            * 100 use of "go"

                            * 50 use of "goes"

     3. Style

  Such as personification and use of passive structure etc.

     4. Content knowledge