What is it about?
The calls for cooperation between disciplines rather than twisting the paradigm in favour of other approaches. It outlines the differences between NLP and corpus linguistics by outline core corpus linguistics within a Sinclairian perspective. It sees Corpus Linguistics as being text-centred, Trusting the Text to quote Sinclair. The discipline is concerned with exploring language in communication rather than in computing or attempting to formalise grammatical details. It differs from NLP in that software is simply a means to an end and not an end in itself. The leitmotiv is that many disciplines use corpora, but they should work in complementarity rather than imposing their outlook on another and claiming to be what they are not.
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Why is it important?
Corpus linguistes is about understanding meaning in communication. Fluctuating corpus-driven norms help understand language in motion as a dynamic phenomenon.
Perspectives
This was mart of a series of papers following a somewhat acrimonious exchange on corpora list. The author sees himself as representing a Sinclairian perspective in that it is very much John Sinclair who created the discipline. He works on the good fences make good neighbours principal in a call for tolerance and understanding what corpus linguistics can achieve.
Professor Geoffrey Clive Williams
Universite de Bretagne-Sud
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This page is a summary of: Many rooms with corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, July 2010, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.15.3.11wil.
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