Zur korpuslinguistischen Untersuchung der sprachlichen Ausgestaltung von Wissensrahmen. Eine Fallstudie anhand des thematisches Bausteins „Die Biennale in Venedig“

In the modern information and knowledge-based society, one of the main concerns of applied linguistics is the development of strategies that allow us to deal with ever larger amounts of texts. The observation that the difficulties in working with large and very large corpora are often due to the very properties of language itself (e.g. the polyfunctionality and polylexicality of linguistic units) is the starting point of the present paper, which focuses on the role played by structural principles underlying the realisation of utterances with regard to the (semi) automatic processing of linguistic data.
Particular attention is paid to the possibilities offered by today’s corpus linguistics to detect semantic-pragmatic or cognitive-epistemic frames, such as the use of concgrams in order to find semantically motivated co-occurrences. The data concerns, in particular, newspaper articles regarding the Venice Biennale.