1.      J. Sinclair and the basic concepts and issues in corpus linguistics

an empirical approach / a lexical approach to linguistic analysis, corpus, concordance, horizontal and vertical view, British National Corpus: simple query, KWIC and Sentence view, ordering and expanding (naked eyes, true feelings and the meaning of possible)

2. Frequency and dispersion

comparing results, normalized frequencies, precision and recall, statistical significance, BNC: wicked, it is up to you

3. Pattern Grammar, collocation and colligation, linear unit grammar

using wildcards, part-of-speech and headword/lemma queries, tagged and parsed corpora (BNC, ICE)

4. Semantic preference, discourse prosody, lexical priming

bachelors and spinsters

5. Types of corpora, developing linguistic corpora

metadata, annotation, reference corpus, using Antconc to explore one‘s own corpus, tabloids and broadsheets

6. Keyness, keywords and freqency lists

stylistic analysis using Antconc

7. Dimensions and variability, multivariate analysis

Written and Spoken English

8. Corpora and academic language

BASE, MICASE, BAWE

9. Corpora in cross-linguistic research

InterCorp

10. Corpora and varieties of English, using comparable corpora

ICE, BNC and COCA

11. Corpus approaches to text and discourse analysis

12. Corpora in EFL and applied linguistics

13. Presentation of students’ projects