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Course: Corpus Linguistics 1

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Course title	Corpus Linguistics 1
Course code	KAA/KOR1
Organizational form of instruction	Seminar
Level of course	Bachelor
Year of study	not specified
Semester	Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits	4
Language of instruction	English
Status of course	Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction	Face-to-face
Work placements	This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components	None
Course availability	The course is available to visiting students

Lecturer(s)
Martinková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Tentative syllabus: 1. Language corpora, corpus tools and their use in translation, linguistics and teaching 2-6. Sketch Engine tools: concordancer, Word Sketches, collocations, Thesaurus. Regular expressions, CQL queries. Creating monolingual and parallel corpora in Sketch Engine. 7-12. KonText and regular expressions. Types of multilingual corpora. Parallel translation corpus InterCorp and its structure. Creating subcorpora. Simple and complex queries. CQL. Collocations. 13. Basic statistical concepts: lexical diversity, absolute/relative frequencies, statistical tests.
Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration, Training in job and motor Skils Attendace - 26 hours per semester Homework for Teaching - 74 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course is a practical introduction to the use of corpora for language teaching, translation and linguistics. Students are introduced to English corpora available through Sketch Engine, and later to the interface KonText and the parallel multilingual Corpus InterCorp. Using practical examples, they learn simple and more complex queries, while they are also introduced to the basic concepts of corpus methodology and statistical analysis.
Prerequisites
unspecified
Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Activities ( Technical works), Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio Cumulative workload: Participation, 4 in-class quizzes, 4 homework assignments. If not enough cumulative points gained, then a final test Maximum: , 4 in-class quizzes 18p., 4 homework assignments 52, final test 10 Minimum required: 50 pts total, or 44 for quizzes and HW assignments
Recommended literature
Březina, Václav. (2018). Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide.. Cambridge. McEnery, Tony, and Andrew Hardie. (2011). Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge: CUP. Stefanowitsch, Anatol. (2020). Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology.. Berlín. Zanettin, Federico. (2014). Translation-driven corpora: Corpus resources for descriptive and applied translation studies..

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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2015)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Vietnamese Language and Culture (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Korean Language and Culture (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2023)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2017)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Japanese Language and Culture (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	1	Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024)	Category: Philological sciences	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -

Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 01.05.2025 23:59. Data created for academic year 2024/2025