The book Praktická korpusová lingvistika - čínština (Practical Corpus Linguistics Chinese) by Ľuboš Gajdoš provides insight into the use of Chinese corpora from a user-oriented viewpoint and is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to gain better understanding language. It introduces key concepts categories grammar corpus linguistics, systematically guides user basics intermediate in both...

In any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. To make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. The abstr...

Over recent years, the use of corpora in stylistic analysis has grown in popularity. However, questions still remain over the remit of corpus stylistics, its distinction from corpus linguistics generally and its capacity to explain complex stylistic effects. This article argues in favour of an integrated corpus stylistics; that is, an approach to corpus stylistics that integrates it with other ...

Large data resources play an increasingly important role in both linguistics and psycholinguistics. The first data resources used by both psychologists and linguists alike were word frequency lists such as Thorndike and Lorge (1944) and Kučera and Francis (1967). Although the Brown corpus on which the frequency counts of Kučera and Francis were based was very large for its time, comprising some...

In the last decade the working methods in Computational Linguistics have changed drastically. Fifteen years back, most research focused on selected example sentences. Nowadays the access to and exploitation of large text corpora is commonplace. This shift is reflected in a renaissance of work in Corpus Linguistics and documented in a number of pertinent books in recent years, e.g. the introduct...

Corpus annotation—adding interpretive information into a collection of texts—is valuable for a number of reasons, including the validation of theories of textual phenomena and the creation of corpora upon which automated learning algorithms can be trained. This paper outlines the main challenges posed by human-coded corpus annotation for current corpus linguistic practice, describing some of th...