The Applicability of Corpus Linguistics in the Field of Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics refers to an enormous collection of text through which use of language or corpus of a particular variety is represented. The importance of reviewing corpus linguistics and its principle from a linguistic perspective should be documented. Thus, this paper aims at examining the plausibility of corpus linguistics’ objectives and methodologies in context of basic tenets related to linguistics. The doctrines about the data nature and usage for linguistic analysis will also be used to determine how corpus linguistics methods stand up to them. This paper also encompasses a discussion regarding the issue of representativeness in light of Douglas Biber’s influential research paper “Representativeness in Corpus Design”.