Скачать или смотреть Corpus Linguistics - Definitions and Theories

Richard Nordquist
Updated July 03, 2019
Corpus linguistics is the study of language based on large collections of "real life" language use stored in corpora (or corpuses)--computerized databases created for linguistic research. Also known as corpus-based studies.

Corpus linguistics is viewed by some linguists as a research tool or methodology, and by others as a discipline or theory in its own right. Kuebler and Zinsmeister conclude that "the answer to the question whether corpus linguistics is a theory or a tool is simply that it can be both. It depends on how corpus linguistics is applied"

(Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated Corpora, 2015).

Although the methods used in corpus linguistics were first adopted in the early 1960s, the term corpus linguistics didn't appear until the 1980s.