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Md. Mostafa Rashel:
Corpus linguistics, broadly, is a collection of methods for studying
language. It begins with collecting a large set of language data - a
corpus - which is made usable by computers. Corpora (the plural of
corpus) are usually so large that it would be impossible to analyse them
by hand, so software packages (often called concordancers) are used
in order to study them. It is also important that a corpus is built using
data well matched to a research question it is built to investigate. To
investigate language use in an academic context, for example, it would
be appropriate for one to collect data from academic contexts such as
academic journals or lectures. Collecting data from the sports pages of
a tabloid newspaper would make much less sense.

Afroza Akhter Tina:
We would love to read more regarding the topic dear sir  :)



Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Md. Mostafa Rashel:
Thanks for your fascination Tina. I will provide more information about it. Please wait........

Antara11:
Informative indeed.

Nabinur Rahman:
First of all, warm gratitude to Rasel Sir for sharing such an important topic as it is considered to be one of the valuable lessons for the students of Linguistics.

Once i had an opportunity to learn something about Corpus Linguistics, in other words, a method by which we try to analyse the natural occurrence of language and the account of  the frequency of the phenomena. I joined an workshop presided by an Associate professor of Nottingham University at Department of English, DU. I would like to share an article which i studied for that purpose.

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