Analysing Corpora
摘要
This chapter discusses the analysis of large data sets, called corpora, drawing on concepts from Corpus Linguistics and processes advocated by Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies. A brief overview of forced migration research using corpus approaches is presented before two case studies. The first case study demonstrates how to undertake basic corpus analysis on a general corpus of American English and a specialised corpus of Nigerian English. The next case study focuses on the analysis of concordance lines and collocates of a Spanish parliamentary corpus. Two exercises help readers get started on using corpus approaches.