Degrees of Synonymy Synonymy
27 of corpora from variety of sources Biber, et al., 2002. Hunston 2002 adds that
computers maintain and process large amounts of information, the electronic corpora which are used to study aspects of language. Biber, et al. 2002 state that
corpora are written in complete texts, so they will be not limited to sentence- length excerpts to be analyzed.
There are corpora that are available online on corpus.byu.edu. That website, which consists of billions words, is created by Mark Davies, a Professor of
Linguistics at Bringham Young University, USA. It consists of corpora from three languages, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. There are seven English corpora:
Global Web-Based English GloWbE, Corpus of Contemporary American
English COCA, Corpus of Historical American English COHA, TIME
Magazine Corpus , Corpus of American Soap Operas, British National Corpus
BYU-BNC, and Strathy Corpus Canada. The corpora are built to find out how native speakers actually speak and write, look at language variation and change,
design authentic language teaching materials and resources, and find the frequency of words, phrases, and collocates Davies, n.d.. Davies n.d. says that
there are more than 100.000 people each month who use this site for teaching, learning, and personal interest. The website also provides the publication of
corpus study by researchers all around the world. In early 2008, COCA was released online Davies, 2009. COCA is the first
large and diverse corpus of American English. It has 450 million words from 1990 to 2012, balanced between spoken 20, fictions 20, popular magazines
20, newspapers 20, and academic journals 20. Davies 2009 adds that
28 the composition of the texts can compare data diachronically across the corpus.
The changes in the language will be shown by looking at the equivalent of text compositions which consist of spoken and written from year to year. The spoken
texts are almost entirely the transcription of unscripted conversation from television and radio programs Davies, 2009. The spoken corpora are accurate
although they are completely spontaneous.