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Corpus Analysis (KF_057)
About Study Course
Department: Faculty of Social Sciences
Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Sergejs Kruks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Sociology; Psychology; Communication Science; Social Anthropology; Law; Social Welfare and Social Work; Public Health; Political Science; Management Science; Juridical Science; Business Management; Information and Communication Science; Pedagogy
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Communication Sciences; Communication Theory
Objective
Learn to work with Latvian language corpora and interpret meaning of lexical units in large texts.
Prerequisites
Not required.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
students are able to recognize principles of meaning, basic difference between paradigms of meaning; principles of making and using language corpora.
Skills
Students can use Sketch Engine programme, find words frequencies, concordance and collocations, extract statistical data of language use, interpret data qualitatively and quantitatively.
Competence
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.
Study course planning
Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective courses, C-kursi | 1 | Free choice | Sergejs Kruks |
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective courses, C-kursi | 2 | Free choice |
