RE: [Corpora-List] Query on the use of Google for corpus research

From: Mark P. Line (mark@polymathix.com)
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 16:46:38 MET DST

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    TadPiotr said:
    >
    > There is something deeply wrong...
    > I had a look at the references in the paper, and you cannot say they did
    > not refer to linguistic literature (or what they take to be linguistic
    > literature): there is a reference to a note on corpora in The Economist.
    > Did I say something seems to be wrong?

    Well, of course. Linguistics has done a poor public relations job in
    general, and a poor job of getting (real) linguistics into the general
    curricula in particular.

    Outside the ivory tower, a "linguist" is somebody who speaks a foreign
    language, and there's no perceived need for a "science" of language
    because language is thought to be a phenomenon that is utterly transparent
    to everybody.

    -- Mark

    Mark P. Line
    Polymathix
    San Antonio, TX

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