The Web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners
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Abstract
The paper compares systematically the utility of specially-made text corpora and the textual resources of the World Wide Web for linguists and language learners. Different modes of access are discussed, including via dedicated concordancing software, web-concordancing and the universal search engine.
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text corpus , www , Internet , Web as corpus , search engine , size of the web , balance , representativeness , access , concordancer , linguist , language learners , English
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Baker, Paul (ed.), Contemporary corpus linguistics. London/New York: Continuum. 289-300.