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cor·po·ra

(kôr′pər-ə)

Plural of corpus.

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corpora

(ˈkɔːpərə)

1. (Anatomy) the plural of corpus

2. (Banking & Finance) the plural of corpus

3. (Linguistics) the plural of corpus

4. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the plural of corpus

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cor•pus

(ˈkɔr pəs)

n., pl. -po•ra (-pər ə)
for 1-3,5, -pus•es for 4.

1. a large or complete collection of writings: the entire corpus of Old English poetry.

2. the body of a person or animal, esp. when dead.

a. a mass of body tissue that has a specialized function.

b. the main part of a bodily organ.

4. a collection of utterances, as spoken or written sentences, taken as a representative sample of a given language or dialect and used for linguistic analysis.

[1225–75; Middle English < Latin]

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He covers a corpus stylistic approach to the study of literary translation; Africa and Africans in Heart of Darkness; texts, corpora, and methods; from lexis to themes: the keyword analysis; the fictional representation of the African jungle; the fictional representation of the African natives; and applying principle component analysis to the study of literary translation.

Corpus Stylistics in Heart of Darkness and Its Italian Translations

I due volumi sono il prodotto di un quindicennio di attivita del gruppo di ricerca dell'Universita di Torino, coordinato da Carla Marcilo, che opera nel filone denominato, in ambito internazionale, Learner Corpus Research: vale a dire quell'area della linguistica acquisizionale che studia il modo in cui le lingue seconde vengono acquisite attraverso l'uso sistematico di corpora linguistici di apprendenti.

Elisa Corino e Carla Marello. Italiano di stranieri. I corpora VALICO e VINCA

However, for Louw, Mahlberg seems to be prompted by literary texts alone, rather than by any attempt to use forms of automation through reference corpora that will result in a complete picture.

Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic. Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodie Theory and Subtext

Our paper deals with the corpus-based conceptualization method, which can be considered as a method of organizing data using linguistic corpora. The corpus-based conceptualization allows us to establish a closer link with the meaning and identify the whole spectrum of meanings (Halliday, 1975).

Corpus-based conceptualization in sociology: possibilities and limits/Conceptualizacion basada en el corpus en sociologia: posibilidades y limites

Large corpora of English also exist, such as the recently updated Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008--) and the British National Corpus (2007).

Steps for Creating a Specialized Corpus and Developing an Annotated Frequency-Based Vocabulary List

Table 1--Statistical parameter comparison of two corpora parameter word/sntence tokens Cet 4 157624 2591 Cet 6 184630 4583 Table 2--Basic statistical parameters of film and television corpus Words(types) 35861 Words(tokens) 1322685 Type/token ratio 3925762 characters 5083124

Study on English vocabulary based on the computer-aided corpus

Wichmann [10] observed a direct or indirect convergence between corpora and teaching.

Adaptive semantics web-based approach for E-education using the static annotated corpus

Incorporating Corpora. The Linguist and the Translator.

Llum Bracho Lapiedra, ed. El corpus COVALT: un observatori de fraseologia traduida