Review of L20 (Corpus Linguistics) and Other Topics (Use in L21)

In the field of Corpus Linguistics, what does "corpus" refer to?

• Studying the meanings behind the plots of zombie stories.

• A teaching method in which teachers speak and students act out the language with their bodies (i.e., corpus, corpora).

• Using a teaching method that involves repeating after the teacher, along with other types of oral drills.

• A collection (i.e., body) of texts or language.

In Lecture 20, we discussed the Collins COBUILD Dictionary. It has been described as "revolutionary" because it was created from a corpus. What does this mean? Please choose the best answer from the options below.

• Lexicographers (辞書編集者) made this dictionary based on just what they thought the definitions of words were.

• The definitions in the dictionary are based on the way people actually used the words.

• The dictionary contains no definitions.

• It was the first dictionary that was available for free.

We talked about concordancers in Lecture 20. What are concordancers? Please choose the best definition from those below.

• Concordancers are tools that will search through (or analyze) texts or corpora, and tell us information such as how many times specific words (collocations, etc.) appear in the text.

• Concordancers are a type of tool that lets us embed questions or notes into YouTube videos.

• Concordancers are groups of scholars who decide if researchers will be allowed to conduct research or not.

True or False:

MICASE (The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) contains examples of language that people (students, graduate students, faculty) at the University of Michigan actually spoke.

• True

• False

True or False:

MICUSP (The Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers) contains ONLY explanations of different types of papers. It has NO actual examples of papers that students wrote.

• True

• False

True or False:

You may write your course Paper on the same topic as your Group Presentation topic.

• True

• False

True of False:

The written assignment in this course ("Paper") is due by Lecture 30.

• True

• False

True or False:

Quiz 2 will take place during class time.

• True

• False