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\"screenshot<\/a>Hello, everyone! For this installment of the Resource Roundup series, we are looking at Shonagon<\/a> (\u5c11\u7d0d\u8a00), an online corpus of contemporary written Japanese maintained by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL<\/a>, \u56fd\u7acb\u56fd\u8a9e\u7814\u7a76\u6240).<\/p>\n

Why I find this resource useful<\/h2>\n

For anyone unfamiliar with corpora, they are collections of written texts used by linguists to analyze and investigate language. I think of corpora as a purpose-built database of language. For example, I have created a corpus using railway-specific patent abstracts to identify terms unique to the rail industry for inclusion in WIPO\u2019s multilingual terminology portal, Pearl<\/a>. At work, I have been building customer-specific corpora to guide my terminology and stylistic translatorial choices. I have referenced the Corpus of Contemporary American English to ensure my into-English translation does not suffer from undue Japanese influence. And I have referenced Shonagon to check how Japanese terms are used in context and particle collocations. Corpora can be excellent tools to check language for specific purposes, to prepare for interpreting assignments in specific domains, to check for linguistic anachronisms, and more.<\/p>\n

How to use Shonagon<\/h2>\n

\"screenshot<\/a>First, let\u2019s get familiar with Shonagon\u2019s search features. The search page has a simple set up. Your search field, \u691c\u7d22\u6587\u5b57\u4f8b, is at the very top followed by the \u691c\u7d22 and \u30af\u30ea\u30a2 buttons. There is also a link to include the context before\/after your target search term or phrase (more on this later.)<\/p>\n

Under the query section is a list for \u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\uff0f\u30b8\u30e3\u30f3\u30eb. These can be used to refine\/restrict your search. You can search books, magazines, newspapers, white papers, textbooks, PR releases, Yahoo!\u77e5\u6075\u888b, Yahoo! Blogs, poetry, laws, and Diet proceedings (see first screenshot below).<\/p>\n\n\t\t