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A puter corpus is a large body of machinereadable texts. Corpus linguistics deals with the principles and practice of using corpora in language study. Chapter Eight Language and Computer The roles of corpus data (P34143) The importance of corpora to language study is aligned to the importance of empirical data. Empirical data enable the linguist to make objective statements, rather than those which are subjective, or based upon the individual’s own internalized cognitive perception of language. Starting from this point, we will find corpora can play important roles in a number of different fields of study related to language, such as , speech research, lexical studies, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, stylistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, variation studies, psycholinguistics, social psychology, cultural studies, etc. Chapter Eight Language and Computer Criticisms and the revival of corpus linguistics Chomsky: Corpus could never be a useful tool for the linguist (petence/performance). (P33738) The Revival: Quirk’s ambitious Survey of English Usage and Leech’s remarks of it A truth in scientific research: Criticism accelerates improvement. Chapter Eight Language and Computer Questions and Exercises 1 Using the knowledge you’ve learned in Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics, ment on the idea that there will always be the market for human translators. 2 Finish the Exercises and Questions 3 and 5 on Page 350 in our textbook.