English and Anglo-American Studies

This course intends to provide an overview of theoretical and applied bases for the use of corpora in synchronic and diachronic linguistics with particular reference to English language. We will present general problems concerning the use of empirical methods in linguistics and statistical analysis of textual data. We will illustrate methods for the construction and querying of corpora and the principal resources available today.

no prerequisite required

1. McEnery, Tony e Andrew Hardie, Corpus linguistics : method, theory and practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, 2012 (solo capitoli 1,2,3,4,9) 2. Baisa, Vít, Jan Michelfeit, Marek Medveď, and Miloš Jakubíček. 2016. “European Union Language Resources in Sketch Engine.” In The Proceedings of Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16), ed. by Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asunción Moreno, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis, 2799–2803. Portorož, Slovenia: European Language Association (ELRA) 3. Biel, Ł. (2020). Eurolects and EU Legal Translation. In The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices (pp. 1-25). Oxford University Press 4. Pym, Anthony. 2000. “The European Union and Its Future Languages: Questions for Language Policies and Translation Theories.” Across Languages and Cultures 1 (1): 1–17. 5. Rirdance, Signe, and Andrejs Vasiljevs (eds). 2006. Towards Consolidation of European Terminology Resources. Experience and Recommendations from EuroTermBank project. Riga: EuroTermBank Consortium.in Šarčević, Susan. 2015. Language and Culture in EU Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge. 6. Mariani, J. (2021). Migration Terminology in the EU Institutions: Overview and Patterns of Use of Terms from 1950 to 2016. Terminology: International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication, 27(1), 35–55 7. Chiari, I., Bader, M., Salem, A. and Squillante, L. 2021 “Using Corpora In Building A Multilingual Glossary Of Migration” // Proceedings Of The International Conference Corpus Linguistics–2021 / Труды международной конференции «Корпусная лингвистика-2021». — СПб.: Скифия-принт, 2021, pp- 84-94 (ISBN 978-5-98620-557-1) (в печати). 8. Chiari, I. 2021 “A lexicographic platform for migration terminology: problems and methods”, in Zoe Gavriilidou, Lydia Mitits, Spyros Kiosses (eds.), XIX EURALEX International Congress “Lexicography for Inclusion”, SynMorPhoSe Lab, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece, pp. 665-672 (ISBN 978-618-85138-2-2)

in presence

Individual assignments and written examination. 2 written assignments (45 minutes each): 1 practical 1 theoretical After course completion.

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