Corpus Analysis of English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer · The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics · 2012
Abstract The acknowledged advantage of corpus linguistics is that it provides access to data derived from actually attested language upon which a reliable description can be based. This enables linguists to make use of observation rather than being dependent on less reliable data, based on either introspection or elicitation. A prior decision that has to be taken, however, is what kind of attested language is to be selected.