GETTING ON WITH CORPUS COMPILATION: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE.

The aim of this paper is first to present some theoretical guidelines on the design and compilation of a specialized corpus in compliance with Corpus Linguistics standards; second, to provide a comprehensive description of the stages followed in the creation of the Telecommunication Engineering Corpus and its characteristics; and finally, to report the immediate results obtained from the basic analysis of the corpus: statistical information and frequency list. This paper is particularly addressed to those ESP practitioners who have to deal with the compilation of a specialized corpus for the first time, without a working knowledge of the specific subject domain they are involved in 1 .

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