PdF:NJ_G990 Corpus Linguistics - Course Information
NJ_G990 Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 for the colloquium). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- NJ_G990/01: Fri 21. 9. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, Fri 12. 10. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, Fri 26. 10. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, Fri 9. 11. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, Fri 23. 11. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, Fri 7. 12. 9:00–9:50 učebna 28, T. Káňa
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of linguistics
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - German Language (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
- German Language for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE) (4)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature (programme PdF, N-ZS) (2)
- Lower Secondary and Language School Teacher Training in German Language (programme PdF, N-ZS) (2)
- Course objectives
- This course makes the students familiar with the corpus-driven approach to linguistics and helps them in selecting an appropriate corpus and gaining proper data for their needs in their future jobs (as linguists, interpreters, teachers etc.). One of the aims of the course is a critical approach to corpus data. A special attention is given to contrastive researches based on the Czech-German Parallel Corpus.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students can:
- use the most important language corpora relevant for teaching and learning German as a foreign and second language;
- formulate (also CQL) queries according to different criteria;
- use corpus data for linguistic and didactic research and purposes. - Syllabus
- The Corpus, Language corpus and electronic language corpus (a description)
- Typology of corpora
- one-language Corpora
- parallel Corpora
- Problematic fields of corpora (pro and contras)
- the most important corpora of German (IDS, DWDS, Wortschatz - Leipzig)
- The Czech National Corpus and the project “InterCorp”
- The Czech-German Parallel Corpus
- Working with the "KonText" corpus manager (main features)
- Literature
- required literature
- KÁŇA, Tomáš. Sprachkorpora in Unterricht und Forschung DaF/DaZ (Corpuses in Teaching and Researching German as a Foreign Language). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 243 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6994-7. info
- recommended literature
- Wichmann, Anne / Fligelstone Steven / McEnery Tony / Knowles Gerry [eds.]: Teaching and language corpora. London - New York: Longman; 1997. ISBN 0-582-27609-8 (Od Brna nejblíž dostupné v UB Wien.)
- Český národní korpus :úvod a příručka uživatele. Edited by Jan Kocek - Marie Kopřivová - Karel Kučera. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filozofická fakulta UK - Ústav Českého národního korpusu, 2000, 156 s. ISBN 80-85899-94-9. info
- Teaching methods
- discussions on corpora – comparing their advantages and disadvantages; practical usage of corpora (work with different corpus manager); short papers on corpus driven researches
- Assessment methods
- Credit/zápočet (2 ECTS): for a written test (20 min.) at the end of term. Colloquium (4 ECTS): for a submission of a short paper (10-15 pages) on a small linguistic research.
- Language of instruction
- German
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Výuka probíhá v pátek.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin v kombinované formě. - Teacher's information
- https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1441/jaro2016/NJ_KORP/seminar_02.qwarp
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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