A16) STEINBACH; Regional variation of idioms (BNCweb + COCA via CQPweb)
Corpora: British National Corpus (BNC), Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Programs: BNCweb, CQPweb (different name, different colour, but virtually the same interface)
Tasks:
- Find all occurrences of both a drop in the bucket and a drop in the ocean in both corpora
- Compare the relative percentages of the above mentioned idioms.
- Use the collocation function of BNCweb/CQPweb to find out whether there are other common collocations for a drop in the.
Notes:
- The corpora can be accessed via the departmental server: https://eng-ling.uni-bamberg.de/
- You have to sign up for a free user account to gain access to the corpora.
- The quick reference guide (https://eng-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bncweb/Simple_query_language.pdf) can also be accessed via the BNCweb interface.
- In addition, you can borrow the following user guide from Julia Schlüter: Hoffmann, Sebastian et al. (2008) Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb: A Practical Guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Last but not least, there is a youtube channel with instructional videos for the CQPweb interface here:
Solution: Mini-project A16.pdf
Остання зміна: понеділок 16 листопада 2015 16:11 PM