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The Corpus of Language and Nature (CLAN Project)®: A Tool for the Study of the Relationship Between Cognition and Emotions in Language

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This chapter makes a description of the theoretical tenets of the structure and compilation of the Corpus of Language and Nature. The chapter describes the foundations of the analysis of natural landscapes from an ecological perspective and makes the link with the theory of the cognitive appraisal of natural landscapes developed by Romero-Trillo and Espigares (Pragmatics & Cognition 20: 168–185). The chapter presents the design of the corpus compilation step by step as a way to illustrate how to use modern technological and computer resources for linguistic analysis and data archiving. The most important feature of this corpus is that its main aim is not only to compile a massive amount of spoken data representing the speech of informants belonging to different regional and first language variables, but also to carry out a scientific experiment in which certain variables are considered for future linguistic and statistical correlations in order to ascertain the relationship between language, emotion and nature. The objective of the chapter is also to illustrate the process of design and collection for readers intending to start a corpus with a sound experimental design.

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    The Corpus of Language and Nature (CLAN Project) (logos, design, computer platform architecture and data) has the Certificate of Registration No 010091932 issued by the Register of Community Trade Marks of the European Union.

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  1. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Francisco Tomás y Valiente 1, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús Romero-Trillo

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    Jesús Romero-Trillo

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Romero-Trillo, J. (2013). The Corpus of Language and Nature (CLAN Project)®: A Tool for the Study of the Relationship Between Cognition and Emotions in Language. In: Romero-Trillo, J. (eds) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6250-3_10

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