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

Lew, Robert2010-12-142010-12-142009Baker, Paul (ed.), Contemporary corpus linguistics. London/New York: Continuum. 289-300.http://hdl.handle.net/10593/738The 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.entext corpuswwwInternetWeb as corpussearch enginesize of the webbalancerepresentativenessaccessconcordancerlinguistlanguage learnersEnglishThe Web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learnersRozdział z książki