Formations CORLI aux outils linguistique de corpus

Nous apprenons que consortium CORLI reprend ses activités de formation avec une session qui se tiendra sur deux jours, les 13 et 14 décembre 2021, à l’Université de Paris (campus des Grands Moulins, ex Paris Diderot, Paris 75013). Huit modules de formation seront proposées, réparties sur quatre demi-journées (voir programme détaillé ci-après, extrait de leur annonce par e-mail).

Si vous êtes intéressé.e.s par ces formations, dépêchez-vous ! Le nombre de places sera limité pour chaque session. La demande d’inscription doit se faire au plus tard le 30/11 via le formulaire accessible ici.

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Written BNC2014

Good News!!!

Aujourd’hui, Lancaster University lance le Written BNC2014, qui vient compléter la nouvelle édition du British National Corpus. Voici comment ils le présentent (link) :

The British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014) is a major project led by Lancaster University. We created a 100-million-word corpus (a large collection of ‘real life’ language) of present-day British English. This corpus can be used by researchers to understand more about how language works and how it is evolving. Educators, dictionary compilers and the interested public will also be able to access the corpus to find usage examples of modern British English in different genres.
The Spoken part of the corpus (10 million words) has already been released. We will be officially releasing the written part of the corpus (90 million words) on 19th November via #LancsBox X, a software package developed at Lancaster University. This will complete the BNC2014 project.

Pour une description complète du Written BNC2014 : The Written British National Corpus 2014 – design and comparability (degruyter.com)

*Image source : http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014/

Data visualization and analysis in second language research

Encore un livre dédié à l’usage de R pour visualiser et analyser des données, cette fois-ci avec une orientation “recherches en langue étrangère”. Un des favoris sur ma liste des lectures d’été.

Garcia, G. D. (2021) Data Visualization and Analysis in Second Language Research. S.l.: Routledge.
 

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Doing Linguistics with a Corpus

Doing Linguistics with a CorpusEgbert, Jesse, Tove Larsson, et Douglas Biber. 2020. Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User (Elements in Corpus Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108888790
 
A very well written and useful book. The general idea is that you always should keep in mind your linguistic research question and be aware that results obtained through corpus tools may create layers of abstraction between the data and the researcher. A basic understanding of what the tool does with your data (which changes it applies to them) is required. You should always come back to the original texts after obtaining results created with the help of statistical methods.
 
Some of my favorite quotes:
 
“we should always strive to choose minimally sufficiant statistical methods, meaning that we should choose tests that are no more no less sophisticated than the study design requires. (…) Even simple, seemingly straightforward statistical methods may lead to linguistically questionable conclusions caused by layers of abstraction between the data and the researcher” (p. 40).
 
“Statistical tests cannot replace linguistical analysis; they are, and should remain, tools that should assist the researcher in drawing linguistically valid conclusions” (p. 42).
 
“an ever-widening gap between the everyday user and the language contained in the corpus” (p. 70).
 
“end goal of turning corpus-based data into meaningful linguistic information” (p. 70).
 
[i]nformation is born when data are interpreted” (Stallings, 1989: 2) (p. 71).
 
“The two sides of any corpus-based linguistically meaningful quantitative analysis: the statistical analysis and the qualitative interpretation (…) through consideration of actual texts” (p. 72).

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Lire Pierre Frath

Lors de la séance du Club Corpus du 11 décembre 2020, tenue via Zoom, Pierre Frath nous a fait une présentation sur les apports du corpus à partir de l’exemple de la causalité. Cela a mené à une discussion très intéressante portant, entre autres, sur l’usage de la formule set in.
Le livre de Pierre Frath cité ci-dessous nous permettra de prolonger ces échanges.
 
Frath, Pierre. 2020. Linguistique anthropologique et référentielle. Sapientia Hominis.