Why take a further degree in Corpus Linguistics?
Corpora – large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically – provide a means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora are now routinely used in the following fields: The production of dictionaries and other reference materials; The development of aids to translation; Language teaching materials; The investigation of ideologies and cultural assumptions; Natural language processing; The investigation of all aspects of linguistic behaviour, including vocabulary, grammar and pragmatics. A professional or academic working with corpora needs to have an understanding of the theories and assumptions that lie behind corpus building and corpus analysis, the implications of corpora for theories of language, and the range of applications of corpora. This programme is designed to meet those needs.
