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B024242 - CORPUS LINGUISTICS
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Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Coorte 2016 - Second Cycle Degree in THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-LIN/01 - HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
19/09/2016 ⇒ 22/12/2016
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B024242 - LINGUISTICA DEI CORPORA
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LINGUISTICA STORICA, TEORICA, E APPLICATA
B024242 - LINGUISTICA DEI CORPORA
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LINGUISTICA STORICA, TEORICA, E APPLICATA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Text encoding and mark-up languages; the building of linguistic resources and their exploration; spoken corpora and speech analysis: pragmatic foundations and prosodic functions
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
E Cresti. A. Panunzi, "Introduzione ai corpora dell'italiano", Bologna, Mulino, 2013.
A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli, "Testo e computer. Elementi di linguistica computazionale", Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Further readings:
K. Aijmer, Ch. Rühlemann,"Corpus Pragmatics. A Handbook", Cambridge, CUP, 2014.
C. Bazzanella, "Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio. Un'introduzione", Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2015(5).
T. McEnery, A. Hardie, "Corpus Linguistics", Cambridge, CUP, 2012.
T. Raso, H. Mello (eds), "Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies", Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2014.
P. Sorianello, "Prosodia. Modelli e ricerca empirica", Roma, Carocci, 2003, 2014(3).
A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli, "Testo e computer. Elementi di linguistica computazionale", Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Further readings:
K. Aijmer, Ch. Rühlemann,"Corpus Pragmatics. A Handbook", Cambridge, CUP, 2014.
C. Bazzanella, "Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio. Un'introduzione", Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2015(5).
T. McEnery, A. Hardie, "Corpus Linguistics", Cambridge, CUP, 2012.
T. Raso, H. Mello (eds), "Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies", Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2014.
P. Sorianello, "Prosodia. Modelli e ricerca empirica", Roma, Carocci, 2003, 2014(3).
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the fundamental issues in corpus linguistics, specifically in spoken language analysis.
Acquisition of the basic skills to use electronic tools for linguistic and text analysis.
Acquisition of the basic skills to use electronic tools for linguistic and text analysis.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of general linguistics.
Teaching Methods
Face to face lessons; practical exercises for linguistic analysis and corpora building.
Further information
The slides of the course will be available.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Course program
(1) Text encoding: character encoding; high level encoding; mark-up languages. (2) The corpus as source for linguistic data: sampling and representativeness; corpus building; lexicon distribution and frequency lists; exploring the corpus: concordances, collocations, regular expressions. (3) Spoken corpora: dealing with oral data; spoken language analysis: pragmatics and prosody.