[Corpora-List] Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'-- re Louw's endorsement

[Stefan Th. Gries]

Thanks, Andrew, for chiming in. I couldn't agree more, and it is
instructive in this regard to read the recent paper by Taylor in issue
32 of the ICAME Journal. She clearly shows that scholars simply
disagree with regard to what they think corpus linguistics is: a
discipline, a paradigm, a framework, and more importantly, a theory or
a method. Some regard it a theory - some, McEnery, Xiao, and Tono
(2006:7f.), Meyer (2002:xi), Hardie, and myself consider it a
method(ology).

> It bears mentioning that, if - as Wolfgang Teubert suggests - Stefan Gries considers CL to be "a bunch of methods, a toolbox", then he is far from alone in this.
   and
> Though I won't speak for anyone else I know I am not alone in this. This tradition of CL-as-method is, contrary to what WT suggests, equally as venerable as the CL-as-theory. It is unnecessarily divisive to suggest that "old-fashioned" corpus linguists must subscribe to CL-as-theory, or that the CL-as-method view is in some way a degeneration or a hijacking of CL-as-theory.
My thoughts exactly, like I tried to outline in my previous rather
lengthy posting. There should be room enough for all of us esp. given
that we share more beliefs with each other than with people who dream
up acceptability judgments of contextually isolated and unattested
sentences.

STG
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Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries
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