Working with corpora: Issues and insights

In this paper the corpus-driven approach to language analysis (first proposed by Tognini Bonelli 2001) is explored in greater depth as a qualitative (sic) - as well as a quantitative - revolution to linguistics. In this approach, it is argued - no data are excluded, and descriptive categories are based on recurrent patterns and frequency distribution. There is no discontinuity between text, genre, variety and contexts of situation and culture. The importance of computer technology, and the unity of form and meaning in language description, are highlighted

La Corpus Linguistics

Questo contributo ripercorre le origini della Corpus Linguistics in Gran Bretagna per poi passare ad un resoconto dei maggiori contributi e settori in cui tale metodologia \ue8 stata utilizzata in Italia e infine concludere fornendo un ampio panorama sulle prospettive di applicazione future della stessa