Doing Language Sciences in the Digital Age

Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya (2021): Doing Language Sciences in the Digital Age. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13931816

This is the slides presentation for my guest lecture (Rajeg 2021) under the theme Doing Language Sciences in the Digital Age. The lecture is targeted at the fourth- and sixth-semester undergraduate students at the English Study Program, Faculty of Foreign Languages, at Mahasaraswati University, Denpasar, Bali. It is designed as a light introduction to linguistics and corpus linguistics.

The first part of the lecture provides a brief overview of linguistics and its subareas. The second part of the lecture highlights the way students' linguistic research project can take advantages of the technological advances characterising the field of corpus linguistics, such as the availability of large collection of digitalised texts (i.e. language corpora) and the retrieved quantitative information from analysing corpora; this is illustrated by simple case studies around the words' usages (i.e. lexicology) (e.g. usage patterns from analysing concordance; word-frequency list and its comparison across different corpora; word-class frequency variation for ambicategorical words across time and genres; collocational differences between semantically similar words). The data for the case studies come from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (Davies 2010) and the Coronavirus Corpus.

The lecture is live-streamed in the FBA TV YouTube Channel on 13 February 2021.

Davies, Mark. 2010. The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English. Literary and Linguistic Computing 25(4). 447–464. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqq018.

Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya. 2021. Doing Language Sciences in the Digital Age. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13931816. https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/_/13931816/0 (12 February, 2021).