The Web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners
The paper compares systematically the utility of specially-made text corpora and the textual resources of the World Wide Web for linguists and language learners. Different modes of access are discussed, including via dedicated concordancing software, web-concordancing and the universal search engine.
text corpus, www, Internet, Web as corpus, search engine, size of the web, balance, representativeness, access, concordancer, linguist, language learners, English
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