Extension: a guide to building and searching corpora for NA

The following guide was written by Marc Jones and takes you through the basics of scraping the internet to create domain-specific corpora, compiling your own corpora, and analysing these. You are not expected to be able to do these things to complete this course. However, it is a skill worth developing within the broader activity of analysing target discourse.

Below the document is a list of useful links for exploring this topic further. You can also download the full PDF from the Materials tab.

Useful links

• SketchEngine
• BootCaT
• AntConc homepage
• Laurence Anthony’s YouTube page with lots of tutorials
• Corpora available via Brigham Young University
• MICASE: The Michigan corpus of academic spoken English
• The Hong Kong financial services corpus
• The TED corpus search engine