Corpus pragmatics
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In a broad definition, corpus pragmatics refers to studies of language use that employ large, computer-readable collections of language. It is, thus, part of empirical and data-based pragmatics and contrasts with philosophical approaches to pragmatics. The last twenty years or so have seen a massive increase in the number of corpora compiled by linguists for all sorts of linguistic analyses (see Aarts 2011 for an up-to-date overview of corpora), and in recent years pragmaticists have started to take advantage of these corpora.
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