ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 introduces the fundamental principles of modern language study, with a focus on the systematicity of analysis and frequency of occurrence as the two basic principles of corpus-based research and provides a brief overview of corpus annotation. Section 2.2 defines the key criteria involved in constructing a balanced language corpus and lists the general corpora that are employed as reference corpora in this research. Section 2.3 provides a detailed overview of the process involved in designing and constructing the two comparable newspaper corpora analysed in this book. Finally, Chapter 2 elaborates on key corpus techniques, such as concordance and collocation analysis, and illustrates the advantages of employing a mixed-method approach that combines CDA and corpus linguistics when studying discourses.
