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Corpus Analysis (KF_057)
About Study Course
Department: Faculty of Social Sciences
ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Sergejs Kruks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Business Management; Communication Science; Information and Communication Science; Juridical Science; Law; Management Science; Pedagogy; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health; Social Anthropology; Social Welfare and Social Work; Sociology
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Communication Theory; Media and communications
Objective
Learn to work with Latvian language corpora and interpret meaning of lexical units in large texts.
Prerequisites
Not required.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
1.students are able to recognize principles of meaning, basic difference between paradigms of meaning; principles of making and using language corpora.
Skills
1.Students can use Sketch Engine programme, find words frequencies, concordance and collocations, extract statistical data of language use, interpret data qualitatively and quantitatively.
Competence
1.Students formulate a problem in the field of their professional interests as a problem of language use, advances a hypothesis, extracts and interprets quantitative and qualitative data, formulates conclusions and recommendations.
