Textual Patterns: Key Words And Corpus Analysis in Language Education (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

Textual Patterns......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part I......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Why have corpus-based methods caused an upheaval?......Page 16
A text focus, a language focus, a culture focus or a brain focus?......Page 17
The notion of context......Page 19
Introduction......Page 22
Kinds of word-list......Page 23
Alphabetically ordered......Page 24
Frequency ordered......Page 26
Other possible orderings......Page 28
One-word vs. n-word clusters......Page 30
Adding contextual information to wordlists......Page 31
The nature of high-frequency items......Page 34
Medium-frequency items......Page 36
The distribution curve and the notion of a "power law''......Page 37
The notion of "consistency''......Page 40
What then do word-lists offer?......Page 41
Notes......Page 43
What is meant by co-occurrence?......Page 44
How much overlap is there between textual co-occurrence and the mental lexicon?......Page 48
Patterns......Page 51
Clusters......Page 52
Is ago text-initial? - The dispersion plot......Page 54
Notes......Page 63
Keyness......Page 66
An example......Page 70
Exclamations in Romeo......Page 72
Different reference corpora......Page 74
Where do the KWs come in the text?......Page 76
Links between KWs......Page 77
Wide- and narrow-span linkages......Page 79
KWs and part of speech......Page 81
Keyword linkage between texts......Page 84
Formal patterns of Keyword linkage......Page 85
Examples of Keyword linkage between texts......Page 88
Associates......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 98
Notes......Page 99
Part II......Page 100
Introduction......Page 102
Approach......Page 104
Step 2 - Make wordlists......Page 105
Findings......Page 106
Written academic vs. conversation......Page 107
Of......Page 110
That......Page 112
Spoken Academic and Fiction Keywords referenced against BNC Sampler Written......Page 116
Spoken Academic and Fiction Keywords referenced against BNC Spoken......Page 118
Notes......Page 119
Introduction......Page 120
Approach......Page 121
Preliminary analysis......Page 123
Example B......Page 124
Example C......Page 125
Example D......Page 126
Preliminary analysis: Discussion......Page 127
Contractions......Page 130
Ellipsis......Page 133
Vague language......Page 135
Lexical density......Page 136
Notes......Page 137
Appendix......Page 138
Introduction......Page 142
Resources......Page 143
Approach......Page 144
Single word lists......Page 145
Two-word clusters......Page 147
Three-word clusters......Page 148
Four-word clusters......Page 149
The Poznan literature MA dissertation corpus......Page 153
Comparing expert with apprentice academic writing......Page 154
Comparing apprentice academic writing with general academic texts and expert texts in literary studies......Page 158
BNC_LIT vs. POZ_LIT - mapping similarity and difference: Three-word clusters......Page 161
Analysis 1......Page 164
Analysis 2......Page 165
Analysis 3......Page 166
Analysis 5......Page 167
Identifying contrast between apprentice and expert performances - An interim conclusion......Page 168
Appendix - BNC texts......Page 169
Poznan literature dissertation titles......Page 170
Introduction......Page 172
Approach......Page 173
Who?......Page 174
Second step - Check the immediate collocates......Page 176
What and where?......Page 177
Analysis 1: Conclusion......Page 179
Titles......Page 180
Pronouns......Page 182
Discussion 3: Verbs......Page 184
Analysis 3: A changing world - UK news 1996-2001......Page 185
UK News top five - GW_UK_NEWS vs. BNC......Page 186
UK News top twenty......Page 187
Notes......Page 188
Introduction......Page 190
The text......Page 191
Analysis 1......Page 192
Pivot 2......Page 194
Pivot 3......Page 195
Wordlists and keyword lists......Page 196
Concordances and keywords......Page 197
But can you count on it?......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 203
References......Page 206
Name index......Page 210
Subject index......Page 212
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics......Page 215