The History of Corpus Linguistics

Abstract

My thesis’ aim is to present and give a brief overview of the history of corpus linguistics. I did not hear anything about corpus till last semester when I enrolled to the Corpus Linguistics course. When I saw the name of the course I could not imagine what it was and what it was about. Then gradually I got familiar with corpus as I was reading Mr Hollosy’s course material and by the time of the end term exam I could talk about corpus linguistics. It surprises me that I was not taught about it at college, and I was not prepared to use it in my teaching work. It could make my teaching process easier. I decided to collect all the information about the history of corpus because I was interested in it and I wanted to know why it was not the part of my learning material at college. I wanted to know more about when the first corpora appeared and how long researchers and teachers have used them in their work.