CORPORA AND CORPUS LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO STUDY BUSINESS LANGUAGE
Keywords:
Corpus linguistics, corpora, Sketch Engine, Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR), British National Corpus (BNC), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP)Abstract
This article deals with the corpora and corpus linguistic approaches to study business language. The term corpus is understood more specifically as a compilation of naturally-occurring texts stored electronically and available for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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