POLIFUNKCYJNOŚĆ KORPUSU JĘZYKOWEGO (NA PRZYKŁADZIE PLATFORMY SKETCH ENGINE I NARODOWEGO KORPUSU JĘZYKA ROSYJSKIEGO)
POLYFUNCTIONALITY OF LANGUAGE CORPUS (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE SKETCH ENGINE AND THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show the possibilities of using the corpus in scientific research and foreign language teaching. The paper discusses the advantages of the Russian National Corpus and the corpus ruTenTen11 (Sketch Engine). The material presented in the corpus, which is a modern language tool, can be used for investigation of language changes as well as the linguistic worldview. The corpora record the history of words, document the changes in words’ meanings. The author of the paper analyzes the lexeme and concept Демократия in Russian, the meanings of the new borrowing контент and the verb озвучить. In addition, the use of the language corpora in lexicography is analyzed, the author also compares the knowledge about the language and the culture that is contained in the corpora and the associative dictionarie. The corpora provide useful information about semantic features of words and their collocations. By the patterns of collocability it is possible to reconstruct the linguistic worldview. One of the conclusions is that linguistic data extracted from the corpora can supplement traditional dictionaries.

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