[Corpora-List] Bank of English as a monitor corpus

[Bill Louw]

Hope this message does not have to go through corpora-bounces. Very flattered if I am being filtered.

 I hope that the word bank is a step forward.

The word WORD indicates that it may not be. Frege tried to wean us off single words more than 100 years ago. Words are often THINGS in Wittgenstein's terms and things are pure metaphysics to philosophers. Only COLLOCATION makes them FACTS (states of affairs or _Sachverhalten_). 'The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts not of things.' I am sure that if your registered users feel sold short by the new software they will let the list know. 

Thank you for letting us know that the Bank may be about to join those of the recession without loss of funds or capital:) Bill

Thomas, Brett wrote: 
>  Re: [Corpora-List] Bank of English as a monitor corpus 
>  Hi Bill et al 
> Without wishing to trojan horse this discussion, you may like to know that the recently revamped version of WordbanksOnline, that of course evolved from the boe, are available at present on a free trial basis: www.collinslanguage.com/wordbanks/Default.aspx 
> We are currently transitioning existing users to the new version. 
> Regards 
> Brett Thomas 
> Collins Language 
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> Subject: [Corpora-List] Bank of English as a monitor corpus 
> Hi Mark and Adam and all 
> I used the BOE as a monitor corpus to falsify the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from its title alone in 2003 (see CESLIC Bologna University website) and in the same article I unpack the institutional deception of long standing called 'natural justice'. The latter deception cannot be analysed using the BNC because it homogenises the data by drawing almost all of it from legal textbooks instead of newspaper reports of court cases (see my closing keynote at TaLC6 in Granada in 2004 (in Quereda, Hidalgo et al Eds.). 
> Why not start with institutions instead of the languasge? The BOE gives you a mode of action in rebus as Firth and Malinowski might have observed. The BOE was put together along Firthian lines by John Sinclair and it allows for clearer insights at the Firthian level of modes of meaning. Sadly, John was never allowed a collocation dictionary. That would have assisted the type of research you are engaged in. 
> Bill Louw 
> University of Zimbabwe 
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