NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 語料庫語言學概論(3026)
(Eng.) Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher Ching-Yu Yang
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2025-FALL
Course Description This course provides an introduction to corpus linguistics, a methodology that utilizes large collections of linguistic data to investigate language patterns and phenomena. Students will learn how to annotate, and analyze corpora, and gain insights into language variation, discourse analysis, and language acquisition. Through hands-on practical exercises and research projects, students will develop skills in forming a hypothesis, retrieving data closely related to the hypothesis and examining it quantitively and qualitatively with corpus-based investigations.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
By the end of this course, students will:
1. Understand the principles and methodology of corpus linguistics.
2. Learn how to annotate, and analyze linguistic corpora.
3. Develop critical thinking skills in interpreting corpus data and conducting empirical research.
4. Enhance practical skills in using corpus analysis software and tools.
1.Foreign language skills
2.Professional expertise
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50
topic Discussion/Production
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Internship
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 (9/9) Orientation & What is corpus linguistics? (AS. Ch 1-2)
Week 2 (9/16) Collocation (AS. Ch. 7)
Week 3 (9/23) Collocation (AS. Ch. 7)
Week 4 (9/30) Corpus & Grammar (AS. Ch. 8)
Week 5 (10/7) Corpus & Grammar (AS. Ch. 8)
Week 6 (10/14) Corpus & Morphology (AS. Ch. 9)
Week 7 (10/21) Corpus & Morphology (AS. Ch. 9) & Group final project topic submission
Week 8 (10/28) Corpus & Metaphor (AS. Ch. 11)
Week 9 (11/4) Individual Conferences (I): project proposal discussion
Week 10 (11/11) Biq (2001)
Week 11 (11/18) Ahrens et al. (2018)
Week 12 (11/25) Tsai et al. (2022)
Week 13 (12/2) Duanmu (2012)
Week 14 (12/9) Final Project Presentation (Poster)
Week 15 (12/16) Individual Conferences (II): Comments on oral presentation
Week 16 (12/23) Final Project Submission
self-directed
learning		    03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
Evaluation
Attendance 15%
Assignments 30%
Group final project topic 5%
Group proposal outline 10%
Group final project oral presentation 10%
Group final project submission 30%
Textbook & other References
1. Anatol Stefanowitsch (2020). Corpus Linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Science Press. This book is open access
2. McEnery, T., & Hardie, A. (2011). Corpus linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.

Papers:
1. Ahrens, K., Zeng, H., & Wong, S. H. R. (2018). Using a corpus of English and Chinese political speeches for metaphor analysis.
2. Biq, Y. O. (2001). The Grammaticalization of” Jiushi” and” Jiushishuo” in Mandarin Chinese. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 27(2), 53-74.
3. Chen, C., & Wen, X. (2024). Metaphorical richness: A corpus study of money metaphors in English and Chinese language. Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 11(2), 334-369.
4. Duanmu, S. (2012). Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 21, 89-114.
5. Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan, C.-Y. Helen Yang, Y.-Z. Chen, J.-J. Chen, & Jason S. Chang. (2022). A Data Scientific Study of Transitivization in Chinese. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 20(1), 1-27.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
iLearning
Office Hours
Wed. 15:00-16:00
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