Publication details
Korpus soukromé korespondence jako zdroj poznání jazykového úzu.
| Title in English | A Corpus of Correspondence as a Source for Investigating the Usage in Language |
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Tradícia a perspektívy gramatického výskumu na Slovensku |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | standard Czech; non-standard Czech; corpus of correspondence |
| Description | At the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, a corpus of informal correspondence is created as a subcorpus of the Czech National Corpus. The present contribution informs about the method used when building the subcorpus and presents severals ways of using it. It pays attention to advantages of epistolary texts as a source that can be used for investigating the usage in language. It applies especially to their authenticity and spontaneity, to their borderline position between features of spoken ad written texts which gives the possibility to eplore interesting relationships between the standard an the substandard and to the rich variety of territorial markedness providing the opportunity to investigate the features of language that differ according to various territories. |
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