CORPUS LINGUISTICS AS AN IMPORTANT DIRECTION OF MODERN LINGUISTICS (THE PAST AND THE PRESENT)

Abstract

The variety of linguistic directions, new original approaches to the analysis of the language led to the emergence of such directions in linguistics as cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, discourse and sociolinguistics. The creation of text corpora is one of the urgent tasks of modern linguistics. Text corpora are actively used in the process of compiling dictionaries, in various language studies and examinations. It should be noted that to date, Kazakh linguistics, along with Russian lagged Europe in this regard.

In the given paper we analyze what corpus linguistics is, the period and conditions of its emergence, the present state, its objectives and how scholars and researchers can benefit from this new direction of modern linguistics.