Academic Catalog

ELT612 COMPUTERASSISTED LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Course Code: 8200612
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 7.0
Department: English Language Teaching
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assist.Prof.Dr MÜGE GÜNDÜZ
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course familiarizes with the basic methods of empirical linguistic research as: audiovisual recording of verbal and non verbal communication, constellation and its description, transcribing and transcription systems, segmentation of transcripts, morphological transliteration, translation, prosody, patterns of action, style of speaking, discourse types etc. Basic unit of analysis is the ‘utterance’. A computer program with several components is applied to various steps of linguistic analysis. Computer assisted techniques of corpus linguistics of spoken language(s) in various institutional settings will be dealt with. Some exemplary analyses of selected phenomena of spoken language(s) will be spelled out.