DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Textual studies for digital professions
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
Master's Degree in Textual studies for digital professions
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
CORPUS LINGUISTICS
L-LIN/12 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester
Teaching Staff
MARCO VENUTICourse Structure
Lectures and workshops, which will be held in English
Detailed Course Content
After introducing a statistical approach to language analysis, the module will focus on the use of software for a) for the analysis of lexis, with particular emphasis on collocation, keywords and lexical density, b) a lexico-grammatical approach to language description; c) the analysis of language variation, focusing on registers; d) sociolinguistic and stylistic studies; e) Diachronic comparisons.
Textbook Information
Brezina, Vaclav 2018 Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. A Practical Guide, Cambridge University Press, pp. 296.
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