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Biber, Douglas; And Others – Applied Linguistics, 1994
This paper illustrates the use of corpus-based analytical techniques to address a range of issues in applied linguistics. This approach provides large databases of naturally occurring discourse, enabling empirical analyses of the actual patterns of use in a language and, when coupled with automatic computational tools, enables analyses of a scope…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Databases, Discourse Analysis