Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora

Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora brings new insights into the monolingual ideal that has permeated most branches of linguistics, also corpus linguistics, for a long time.

Arja Nurmi, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer at the University of Tampere. She has participated in corpus compilation and published many articles on multilingual practices and historical sociolinguistics, using corpus-linguistic methodology.Tanja Rutten, Ph.D. is a post-doctorate researcher at the University of Cologne. Her recent publications include studies on historical corpus pragmatics and corpus design. In her current work, she explores the potential and limits of big data for philological investigations.Professor Paivi Pahta is Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Tampere. She leads the Democratization, Mediatization and Language Practices in Britain, 1700–1950 consortium and has studied historical sociolinguistics, multilingualism, register variation, and corpus linguistics.