STUDY ON THE UTILITY OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF AUTHENTIC TEXTS CORPUS DEVELOPMENT
STUDY ON THE UTILITY OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF AUTHENTIC TEXTS CORPUS DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Our paper analyses the condition of the contrastive linguistics in relation with the development of the corpus of authentic texts, nowadays. While the contrastive analysis had faced a real evolution at the beginning of the 20th century, it started to lose the interest of linguists once it was associated to the teaching languages area of study. The lack of a strong theoretical fundament as well as the unreliability of a made-up material used in the analyses has generated a decline of the importance of contrastive studies. Anyway, the things have changed up along with the forthcoming of the corpuses of authentic texts. The elaboration of such authentic language corpuses has drawn the attention of the linguists and it has generated a new evolution of the contrastive linguistics materialized in many corpus based contrastive studies since ‘70s - ‘80s.

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