忍不住转贴这个，因为我们这里有太多类似的帖子了：
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, yakup durmus wrote:
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i have a study about corpus linguistic. i have to prepare
questions to ask foreign english speakers and analyze their words up to
corpus linguistic. what can you suggest me ? what can i ask these
people ? thanks a lot.
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Eric Atwell wrote:
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Dear yakup,
you need to state your problem more clearly. Is your study a PhD
project, a course-work task on a module, a job your boss has given you,
or what ...? What do you mean by "analyze their words up to corpus
linguistic"?? (this isn't British English and i don't understand).
I suggest you step back and look at some guidleines for writing
a research plan, eg I recommend this to PhD applicants:
We normally require a research proposal, ideally following the
guidelines at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/PhDguidelines.doc
- and if you want to really impress us, a more detailed proposal following
EPSRC project proposal guidelines for a 3-year research project, see
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/HowToApply/ProposalDocumentation.htm
I hope this helps
Eric Atwell
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Linda Bawcom wrote:
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Dear Yakup,
Eric is right. We need more information. The "up to corpus
linguistics" is confusing as he stated. Could this be a translation
mistake with "up to"? The "up to" makes your question sound as if
corpus based research is within some hierarchy of analysis, which it
isn't. It is simply one kind of analysis that can be done with texts
(written or spoken). Also, "analyze their words" is very broad. There
are many ways to analyze words. The way you analyze them often depends
on what you are looking for. And thus, perhaps, the kind of questions
you need to ask in order to try to ellicit the kind of examples you
need. So you have a lot of decisions to make before asking your
questions and Eric's web sites could help you here.
If this is an assignment from a teacher, and you have a handout from
her/him explaining it, can you tell us exactly what is written for
this part of the assignment? (if it is in English it would be more
helpful)
Kindest regards,
Linda
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Evan Brown wrote:
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I think perhaps the OP wants to create a corpus of survey question
answers received from foreign English speakers which will then be
analysed to derive information about speech patterns, language use and
so on.
If this is the correct interpretation, it is a very broad question
indeed. If you can post the assignment question, Yakup, or otherwise
provide more information about the precise purpose of the exercise and
the type of questions that you want to answer through text analysis, I'm
sure that the posters here will be glad to help you.
Evan
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, yakup durmus wrote:
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i have a study about corpus linguistic. i have to prepare
questions to ask foreign english speakers and analyze their words up to
corpus linguistic. what can you suggest me ? what can i ask these
people ? thanks a lot.
====================================
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Eric Atwell wrote:
====================================
Dear yakup,
you need to state your problem more clearly. Is your study a PhD
project, a course-work task on a module, a job your boss has given you,
or what ...? What do you mean by "analyze their words up to corpus
linguistic"?? (this isn't British English and i don't understand).
I suggest you step back and look at some guidleines for writing
a research plan, eg I recommend this to PhD applicants:
We normally require a research proposal, ideally following the
guidelines at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/PhDguidelines.doc
- and if you want to really impress us, a more detailed proposal following
EPSRC project proposal guidelines for a 3-year research project, see
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/HowToApply/ProposalDocumentation.htm
I hope this helps
Eric Atwell
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Linda Bawcom wrote:
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Dear Yakup,
Eric is right. We need more information. The "up to corpus
linguistics" is confusing as he stated. Could this be a translation
mistake with "up to"? The "up to" makes your question sound as if
corpus based research is within some hierarchy of analysis, which it
isn't. It is simply one kind of analysis that can be done with texts
(written or spoken). Also, "analyze their words" is very broad. There
are many ways to analyze words. The way you analyze them often depends
on what you are looking for. And thus, perhaps, the kind of questions
you need to ask in order to try to ellicit the kind of examples you
need. So you have a lot of decisions to make before asking your
questions and Eric's web sites could help you here.
If this is an assignment from a teacher, and you have a handout from
her/him explaining it, can you tell us exactly what is written for
this part of the assignment? (if it is in English it would be more
helpful)
Kindest regards,
Linda
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Evan Brown wrote:
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I think perhaps the OP wants to create a corpus of survey question
answers received from foreign English speakers which will then be
analysed to derive information about speech patterns, language use and
so on.
If this is the correct interpretation, it is a very broad question
indeed. If you can post the assignment question, Yakup, or otherwise
provide more information about the precise purpose of the exercise and
the type of questions that you want to answer through text analysis, I'm
sure that the posters here will be glad to help you.
Evan