Handbook of Business Communication

Sylvia Jaworska

24Corpora and corpus linguistic approaches to studying business language

1.Introduction

2.Corpus linguistics: principles and practice

3.Corpora of business language

4.Corpus research on business language

5.Conclusion

1Introduction

Corpus linguistics is primarily concerned with studying language on the basis of large collections of real-life linguistic data normally known as corpora. The term corpus has been used in linguistics generally for some time to describe a sample of a language or language variety. However, in corpus linguistics, the term is understood more specifically as a compilation of naturally-occurring texts stored electronically and available for quantitative and qualitative analysis (McEnery and Hardie 2012). The ...