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In this chapter, we provide a brief characterization of what we consider the best and most common structure that empirical corpus-linguistic papers can and should have. In particular, we first introduce the four major parts of a corpus linguistics paper: “Introduction”, “Methods”, “Results”, and “Discussion”. Since the nature of corpus data and corpus techniques makes the two sections very field-specific, we then focus more particularly on the “Methods” and “Discussion” sections of a typical quantitative corpus linguistic paper. We provide recommendations that span the research cycle from data description to analyzing the dataset and reporting the results of statistical tests.
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This is also a means of bringing credit and recognition to all those involved in corpus compilation.
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See Gries (in press) for more information about how to carry out the tasks of retrieval and annotation discussed above.
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Gries, S.T., Paquot, M. (2020). Writing up a Corpus-Linguistic Paper. In: Paquot, M., Gries, S.T. (eds) A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46216-1_26
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