This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...

this study investigates the conceptual metaphors of happiness in a representative corpus of modern persian. making use of persian linguistic database, we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, to represent modern colloquial persian; then we tried to extract the relevant conceptual metaphors of happiness. the sample corpus contains 14 texts written by contemporary iranian writers. analy...

Stylistics, which may be defined as the study of the language of literature, makes use of various tools of linguistic analysis. Corpus linguistics is opening up new vistas for the study of language, and there are interesting similarities in the approaches of stylistics and corpus linguistics. Stylistics is a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory a...

Anthony, Laurence. 2013. A critical look at software tools in corpus linguistics. Linguistic Research 30(2), 141-161. Corpora are often referred to as the ‘tools’ of corpus linguistics. However, it is important to recognize that corpora are simply linguistic data and that specialized software tools are required to view and analyze them. The functionality offered by software tools largely dictat...

The present paper involves using a spoken corpus for the construction of a written corpus which in turn will be used for speech applications involving emotion, namely an emotional Text-to-Speech system or a Speech-to-Emotion system which requires emotional speech recognition and consequent text to emotion conversion. Such speech application systems, involve the construction of a corpus of writt...

The creation of signed language (SL) corpora presents special challenges to linguists. They are face-to-face visual-gestural languages that have no widely accepted written forms or standard specialist notation system, making even superficial transcription problematic. SL corpora need to be created taking these facts into account. Using the example of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) this paper...

In this article construction profession names were investigated using the corpus-linguistic method. We have identified quantitative differences in functioning of lexemes. The frequency professional is determined by their structural features. An effective principle for creating to choose a one-component term that etymologically ascends international vocabulary. results study revealed significant...

We adopt the corpus-informed approach to example sentence selections for the construction of a reference grammar. In the process, a database containing sentences that are carefully selected by linguistic experts including the full range of linguistic facts covered in an authoritative Chinese Reference Grammar is constructed and structured according to the reference grammar. A search engine syst...