The Web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners

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2009

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continuum

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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.

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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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Baker, Paul (ed.), Contemporary corpus linguistics. London/New York: Continuum. 289-300.

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Biblioteka Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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