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Distinguished Lecturers Series (Tokyo) "Introduction to Corpus Linguistics" by Dr. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University)

Date:
Saturday, February 7: 2:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 8: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Place:
Temple University, Japan Campus Tokyo Campus (access)
Admission:
The first three hours of each seminar (Saturday from 2 until 5 p.m.) are free and open to the public. TUJ alumni are welcome to attend the entire weekend without charge; the weekend auditing fee for others is ¥11,000.

Seminar Overview

This course will examine issues in corpus linguistics, both as a research methodology and as a field of study within linguistics. The course will survey the kinds of research questions that can be investigated using a corpus linguistic approach. We will discuss how corpus linguistics differs from other research traditions in linguistics, emphasizing the advantages of this approach for studies of language use.

We will look at selected published case studies illustrating the range of linguistic research questions that have been studied from a corpus linguistic perspective. We will also discuss methodological issues relating to corpus design and construction, and we will explore key research methodologies, including project designs, using concordancing tools, and interactive coding.

For more information, please contact us at the Tokyo Center.
E-mail: tesol@tuj.ac.jp / Tel: 03-5441-9842