[Corpora-List] Stubbs' analogy?

[Sven.Hartrumpf at FernUni-Hagen.de]

On 13 Dec 2005, Xiaotian Guo <garlickfred at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember Michael Stubbs once used an analogy in stressing the importance of the advent of corpora to linguists and the analogy is the creation of
> telescope to astronauts. But I forgot the source. Could anybody direct me to the reference?

http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/anglistik/Projekte/stubbs/pitcordr.htm
(look for "telescope", section 3.6)

I don't know whether there are more adequate references.

Greetings
Sven