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Wyszukiwarka Google jako praktyczne narzędzie lingwistyczne do opisu innowacyjnych użyć frazeologizmów
The Google Search Engine as a Practical Linguistic Tool for Describing Innovative Uses of Phraseologisms

Author(s): Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska, Gabriela Dziamska-Lenart
Subject(s): Lexis, Computational linguistics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Phraseology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: phraseology; phraseological innovation; Internet search engine; language corpus;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the basic capabilities of the Google search engine in the process of analysing multi-word lexical combinations. Our assumption is that the Google search engine can be regarded as a kind of linguistic database ready to be used as a practical linguistic tool. The text is an overview, therefore the presented material is limited to the necessary minimum, i.e. fifty randomly-selected phraseological compounds. In the introduction, we list ( and briefly discuss ) the tools available for studying Polish-language multi-word lexical combinations. With such an outlined background, we may characterise the Google search engine as a linguistic database. Finally, in the relevant part, we present the ways of using this tool with selected examples. In the summary, we discuss the possibilities offered by the use of a constantly-updated linguistic database which the Internet search engine under review can be considered to be

  • Issue Year: 29/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 15-34
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish