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TY - CHAP
T1 - Analysing Keyword Lists
AU - Rayson, Paul
AU - Potts, Amanda
PY - 2021/5/5
Y1 - 2021/5/5
N2 - Frequency lists are useful in their own right for assisting a linguist, lexicographer, language teacher, or learner analyse or exploit a corpus. When employed comparatively through the keywords approach, significant changes in the relative ordering of words can flag points of interest. This conceptually simple approach of comparing one frequency list against another has been very widely exploited in corpus linguistics to help answer a vast number of research questions. In this chapter, we describe the method step-by-step to produce a keywords list, and then highlight two representative studies to illustrate the usefulness of the method. In our critical assessment of the keywords method, we highlight issues related to corpus design and comparability, the application of statistics, and clusters and n-grams to improve the method. We also describe important software tools and other resources, as well as providing further reading.
AB - Frequency lists are useful in their own right for assisting a linguist, lexicographer, language teacher, or learner analyse or exploit a corpus. When employed comparatively through the keywords approach, significant changes in the relative ordering of words can flag points of interest. This conceptually simple approach of comparing one frequency list against another has been very widely exploited in corpus linguistics to help answer a vast number of research questions. In this chapter, we describe the method step-by-step to produce a keywords list, and then highlight two representative studies to illustrate the usefulness of the method. In our critical assessment of the keywords method, we highlight issues related to corpus design and comparability, the application of statistics, and clusters and n-grams to improve the method. We also describe important software tools and other resources, as well as providing further reading.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-46216-1_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-46216-1_6
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783030462154
SN - 9783030462185
SP - 119
EP - 139
BT - A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics
A2 - Paquot, Magali
A2 - Gries, Stefan
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -