Tuesday 27 May 2014
In the digital era it is very easy to access, store and process texts in massive quantities and treat them as specimens for the study of language, known as corpora.
In the first part of my talk, I will introduce the audience to some of the tools used in corpus work to explore language variation, or linguistic choices speakers make when they speak or write.
In the second part, I will focus on a case study I am currently working on, concerning the ways in which scientists from different disciplinary areas use language to argue their case and disseminate knowledge.
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