ETHNOGRAPHY OF THINGS: CATEGORIES, RESULTS, METHODOLOGY

Abstract

Relations between corpus linguistics and discourse analysis have been evolving forover two decades. Although they have never been cloudless due to some initial fundamentaldifferences as well as an ever-diversifying theoretical and methodological landscape withineach of the fields and some tectonic paradigmatic shifts in linguistics at large, their proponentsclaim that these areas of research have achieved a point of synergy. The author of this articleexamines the past and the present state of the art and argues that the further theoretical andmethodological integration of corpus linguistics and discourse studies opens up new possibilitiesfor transdisciplinary research in contemporary linguistics.