Learning Log 4 (25/07/2016)

                I've learnt about corpus Linguistics by Mr.Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha. He taught me to select a very good book that was "A good introduction". After that, I knew the meaning of corpus. It was a collection of word and a theory or methodology of Language. Next, I learnt about historical overview. Corpus began in 1897s and 1950s-1960s Chomsky believed that introspection is more important than empiricism. The case for introspection showed that language performance was biased because real life is biased. For example, more case of "I live in New York" vs "I live in Dayton Ohio". In contrast, the case for empiricism showed that introspective data was observable. Then, I learnt about Types of corpus. There were seven types of corpus(Specialised corpus, General corpus, Multilingual corpus, Parallel corpus, Learner corpus, Historical or Diachronic corpus, and Monitor corpus). After that, I learnt about processes in corpus linguistics. Frequencies were how many frequency we used words. Then. concordances were all the instances of a word in a corpus, presented in their context. Next, collocations were words that always used with words we search in corpus such as wash was always used with the word "pedestal". Next, distribution information was about which group of people that used words in corpus. Then, Dispersion plots were the words that occurred in a corpus. For instance, the word happy was always in the final of the story. After that, I learnt about observing hidden meaning. I knew the phrase "In broad daylight". It occurred in the negative sentence. Moreover, I realized the phrase "swanning around". It also occurred in the negative sentence. Importantly, I knew how to use BNCweb and find the words in corpus.