Digital Tools in Conducting a Linguo-semiotic Study of Tactile Communication: the Potential of the Russian National Corpus

The paper is aimed at studying and describing the potential of the web-page of The Russian National Corpus - https://ruscorpora.ru - as a set of digital tools for linguosemiotic analysis of the verbal delivery methods of tactile communication). The authors analyze modern digital technologies that allow collecting, structuring and processing extensive linguistic information of Main, Media, Multimedia and other corpora data arrays. Specific focus is made on such digital tools as the search for collocations, the classification of corpus materials by historical period, types of texts, genre affiliation, possibilities to parameterize the search context expansion, including those with specified grammatical forms, statistical methods of research and methods of graphical presentation of data. The model of an integrated approach to the study of linguo-semiotic characteristics of verbalized tactile communication is developed with the help of digital instruments of corpus-based linguistics and contemplates the access to statistical data, which help to detect usage patterns of lexical units, objectifying situations of tactile communication.