Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs
Based on Hank´s Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) Acced the data here.
corpus linguistics
Si solo fuera pan y circo: la construcción de la realidad en los medios
La influencia que los medios de comunicación ejercen sobre nuestros hábitos, creencias y opiniones es, desgraciadamente, enorme. Aceptar que lo que se nos muestra ES la realidad supone menoscabar nuestra propia capacidad crítica y regalar a estos medios, y a sus intereses económicos y agendas, la forma en la que como individuos aceptamos y entendemos … Read more
Lourdes Ortega: ethics, politics & research
Malta, Doctoral Summer School 14 June, 2019 What is a bilingual individual? Knowledge worth knowing to whom, for what purposes, in whose interest? (Ortega, 2019) QUAN research can also adopt an ethical stand. Train yourself in statistics that allow you to bypass fixed idea of native/non-nativeness. Research design can be ethical and political. Use research … Read more
On corpus linguistics ways
Q: How much should a discourse analyst know before he or she engages in corpus work? A: I don’t agree with the presupposition. No discourse analyst needs to know anything doing Corpus Linguistics. What they need (for either) is an open mind, a willingness to learn, to take risks, to make mistakes, to ask for … Read more
Sinclair (2004) vs the theoreticians
Those who during the last decade tried to barricade the profession against the influence of corpora recycled the critical arguments of the theoreticians thirty years before, and we heard again that no corpus can be a totally accurate sample of a language, that occurrence in a corpus is no guarantee of correctness, that frequency is … Read more