[Corpora-List] Boot Camp (Continued...)

[Lou Burnard]

Yorick says "what I have never seen able to see is what corpus 
linguistics (in the sense in which the phrase is owned by the main 
contributors to this debate) is FOR, except the production of better 
dictionaries"

As far as I am aware one of the largest communities interested in 
consuming the fruits of corpus linguistics (whether you're talking about 
corpora or the methods attached to them) is that of people engaged in 
the humdrum but utterly mysterious business of language teaching and 
translation.

Sadly, none of that community seems to have seen fit (yet) to contribute 
to the present discussion. But I think if they did they might suggest 
that corpus linguistics is very definitely "for" those wanting to ground 
their pedagogic practice in language as experienced, rather than 
language as theorized (which is of course experience too, but not quite 
the same order).

Lou