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a functionalist approach

applied linguistics

corpora linguistics.

the investigation of structure with the investigation of function

The term applied linguistics is most often encountered in connection with foreign language teaching.

is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.

Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, computer-mediated communication (CMC), conversation analysis, contrastive linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, lexicography, language planning and policies, pragmatics, forensic linguistics, and translation.

applied linguistics mediates between theory and practice

applied linguistics draws upon descriptions of language from traditions such as cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, generative linguistics and systemic functional linguistics, among others.

A corpus (pl. corpora) is a large collection of written or spoken language (a store of used language) that is used for studying the language.

major directions of corpora studies

The ways of processing data from a corpus

The applications of corpora

Types of corpora

* the effect of corpus studies upon theories of language and how languages should be described.

* the critical approach to the methods used in investigating corpora, and a comparison between them.

Frequency

Phraseology

Collocation

for language teaching;

individual exploring allowing to observe nuances of usage and to make comparisons between languages;

translators use comparable corpora to compare the use of apparent translation equivalents in two languages;

general corpora can be used to establish norms of frequency and usage against which individual texts can be measured (stylistics, clinical and forensic linguistics);

for investigation cultural attitudes expressed through language.

Specialised corpus

General corpus

Comparable corpora

Parallel corpora

Learner corpus

Pedagogic corpus

Historical or diachronic corpus

Monitor corpus