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The corpora have many different uses, including:
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language
teaching and learning, including the
creation of authentic language teaching materials and resources.
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looking at language variation and change;
for example, historical, dialectal, and by
genre
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gaining insight into
culture
(#18); for example what is said
about different concepts over time and in different countries
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specialized research into
legal issues; for example the meaning of words and phrases in laws at
different points in history
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the creation of materials to
elicit psycholinguistic data, such as knowledge and use of words and phrases
at different frequency levels
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lexicographical research, since
they offer much more information on individual
words (including
collocates and
topics) than
any other online
corpora
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analysis of your own texts, to find
keywords from your text, compare phrases to COCA, and see detailed
information (see above) for each word
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and much, much more. The
corpora are useful for any cases where you want to see what is actually
happening in the language (=descriptive), rather than just what is supposed to happen (= prescriptive).
In addition to the
17 corpora,
there are also many corpus-based resources. These
allow you to:
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download large amounts of
corpus-based data, including word
frequency,
collocates, and
n-grams
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download the entire corpus
for offline use
(iWeb, COCA, COHA, GloWbE, NOW, Coronavirus, SOAP, TV, Movies, Wikipedia)
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