[Corpora-List] Query on the use of Google for corpus research

[Mark P. Line]

TadPiotr said:
>
> There is something deeply wrong...
> I had a look at the references in the paper, and you cannot say they did
> not refer to linguistic literature (or what they take to be linguistic
> literature): there is a reference to a note on corpora in The Economist.
> Did I say something seems to be wrong?

Well, of course. Linguistics has done a poor public relations job in
general, and a poor job of getting (real) linguistics into the general
curricula in particular.

Outside the ivory tower, a "linguist" is somebody who speaks a foreign
language, and there's no perceived need for a "science" of language
because language is thought to be a phenomenon that is utterly transparent
to everybody.


-- Mark

Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX