Week 2: What is a corpus, and their role to understand language and literature

Objectives

This week, we will discuss why corpus studies are useful for:
- Understanding the language we speak
- Understanding the novels and stories we read

We will have in-class discussions based on the following chapters.

Book	Chapters to read
	For students interested in language studies: Chapter 15, Chapter 40 For students interested in literature studies: Chapter 17, Chapter 37

Homeworks for next week

You have two tasks for next week:

1/ Please read the chapters for Week 3

2/ Start thinking about a topic that you find interesting. We can discuss your ideas next week!