Why a bilingual writer corpus? Motivations and approaches

Author First name, Last name, Institution

• David M. Palfreyman, Zayed University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source of Publication

Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis

Publication Date

12-23-2022

Abstract

This chapter provides context for the rest of the book by explaining the rationale for creating and using bilingual user corpora: large collections of authentic language use by people in more than one of the languages which they frequently use. In the first part of this chapter, I review the nature of language corpora, the types of corpus currently available and the kinds of research question for which they are relevant. I then review the focus in recent years on multilingualism as a key topic in applied linguistics, and the lack of existing suitable corpora to support research on multilingual language users. Following this, I explain the characteristics of Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (ZAEBUC) as an example of a bilingual writer corpus. Finally, I outline the chapters in the rest of this book, which focus on aspects of methodology for such a corpus and present a range of research studies using ZAEBUC.

DOI Link

10.4324/9781003183921-1

ISBN

9781000782660,9781003183921

Publisher

Routledge

First Page

1

Last Page

18

Disciplines

Education | Linguistics

Scopus ID

85143667897

Recommended Citation

Palfreyman, David M., "Why a bilingual writer corpus? Motivations and approaches" (2022). All Works. 5590.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/5590

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no