Some basic issues of corpus stylistics

Nguyen The Truyen *

* Correspondence: Nguyen The Truyen (email: nguyenthetruyen2004@yahoo.com)

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Received: 21 May 2018
Revised: 30 Jul 2018
Accepted: 07 Aug 2018
Published: 10 Oct 2018
DOI: 10.58810/vhujs.6.2.2018.6246
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Nguyễn, T. . T. (2018). Some basic issues of corpus stylistics. Van Hien University Journal of Science 6(2), 5-16.
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Corpus stylistics is a recent field of study in the contemporary Western stylistics, applying modern computational techniques to process large articles. Corpus-based approach has many applicable values in conducting research in Vietnam and has prospects of creating a breakthrough in research methodology and techniques. It will bring to Vietnamese language learning, which is based mainly on human intuition and manual analysis, a new trend of corpus quantitative analysis with the aid of computers. In order to help Vietnamese readers have basic knowledge of corpus- based approach so that they will have an in-depth thorough understanding of this field or apply it to research on the actual corpora, especially the corpora in Vietnamese language. This article introduces the basic research achievements of Western corpus-based approach. It has five main sections, including definition, approaches, research methodology, software tools, typical research works, strengths and limitations of corpus-based approach.
Keywords: Corpus stylistics, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, corpus-driven approach.

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