Abstract
This talk discusses how big data — linguistic corpus — can benefit Cantonese studies. Corpus data provide us with quantitative and qualitative information to look at how the language is actually used. Taking a bottom-up approach, we can sometimes find from the corpus new patterns and topics for research.
The talk will be divided into three parts: The first part introduces The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese such as its design and source of data. In the second part, I will discuss how the corpus data can be used for (a) language teaching; (b) pragmatic and discourse analysis; (c) exploring the inter-relationship between language, society and cognition. Some of these topics did not receive much attention in previous studies on Cantonese.
The talk will conclude with a demonstration of the phase 2 of the corpus. Copyright © 2018 WICL-4.
The talk will be divided into three parts: The first part introduces The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese such as its design and source of data. In the second part, I will discuss how the corpus data can be used for (a) language teaching; (b) pragmatic and discourse analysis; (c) exploring the inter-relationship between language, society and cognition. Some of these topics did not receive much attention in previous studies on Cantonese.
The talk will conclude with a demonstration of the phase 2 of the corpus. Copyright © 2018 WICL-4.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
| Event | The 4th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-4): Cantonese Linguistics in the Pacific Rim: Theory and Applications - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Duration: 23 Jun 2018 → 24 Jun 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | The 4th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-4): Cantonese Linguistics in the Pacific Rim: Theory and Applications |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Vancouver |
| Period | 23/06/18 → 24/06/18 |