Andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili fonetikasi kafedrasi til aspektlari amaliyoti

Vocabulary in context II

Concordances in learning vocabulary

Handout 1, Activity 1

What is a corpus?

A collection or body of texts in electronic form. The plural is corpora. A corpus is assembled by collecting texts in electronic form. The texts are usually chosen to represent different genres (letters, newspaper articles, fiction, conversations etc.).

A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus).

Some notable text corpora in English:

~ Google N-Grams Corpus

~ American National Corpus

~ Bank of English

~ British National Corpus

~ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 425 million words

~ International Corpus of English