COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6072 CORPUS LINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZGÜN KOŞANER

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The purpose of the course to use corpus-based approaches in the research of natural language and apply corpus-based research methodology

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To hypothesise using corpus-based approaches in the research of natural language
2   To apply corpus-based research methodology
3   To apply corpus-based approaches in the analysis of natural language
4   To make use of corpus-based approaches
5   To demonstrate knowledge on where to obtain corpus resources

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is Corpus Linguistics
2 Corpus Compilation
3 Corpus Compilation
4 Spoken Corpus
5 Turkish Corpuses Areas which used Corpus Data
6 Turkish Corpuses
7 Midterm Exam
8 Corpus Based Analysis
9 Corpus Based Analysis Practice 1
10 Corpus Based Analysis Practice 2
11 Corpus Based Analysis Practice 3
12 Corpus Based Analysis Practice 4
13 Areas which used Corpus Data
14 Areas which used Corpus Data
15 General Review
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. 1. Biber Douglas, Conrad Susan & Reppen Randi (1998) Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Meyer, Charles F. (2002) English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Voormann, H., Gut, U., 2008. Agile corpus creation. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4 (2): 235-251
4. McEnery, T. Wilson, A., 2001. Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
5. Bardal, J. 2002. A Crash Course in Corpus Linguistics. University of Northern Texas Linguistics Division Website. http://www.ling.unt.edu/corpus.html.
Archer, D., Culpeper, J. ve Davies, M. (2008). Pragmatic annotation. A. Lüdeling, M. Kytö (yay.) içinde Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook (pp-613-642). New York: Mouton de Gruyter

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentations about the subject
2. Narration/debate with the help of examples
3. Question & Answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Will be evaluated with the help of the articles which are going to be prepared for midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance to the 80% of the courses is compulsory.
2. Attendance to the midterm, assignments and final exams will be taken into consideration in evaluation
3. Cheating and Plagiarism attempts in midterm, assignments and final exams will be graded as "0" (zero).

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kamil.iseri@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 10 100
Preparation for midterm exam 1 17 17
Preparation for final exam 1 17 17
Preparing presentations 2 22 44
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 226

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.15252
LO.25252
LO.35252
LO.45252
LO.55252