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What's in a Word-list?

Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
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What's in a Word-list? explores how analysing word frequency in texts reveals meaningful insights about the texts and their authors. This edited collection presents cutting-edge research from leading experts on constructing word-lists to analyse frequency and keyword usage. It offers a comprehensive and current overview of innovative approaches in corpus linguistics, demonstrating how frequent lexical items can identify authorship and uncover patterns beyond manual reading.
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This volume is ideal for academics, researchers, and students in corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, language studies, and anyone interested in text analysis and authorship attribution.

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This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research written by leading experts in the field on the construction of word-lists for the analysis of both frequency and keyword usage. Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the most exciting research being conducted in this subject.

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The frequency with which particular words are used in a text can tell us something meaningful both about that text and also about its author, because their choice of words is seldom random. Focusing on the most frequent lexical items of a number of generated word frequency lists can help us to determine whether all the texts are written by the same author.

Alternatively, they might wish to determine whether the most frequent words of a given text (captured by its word frequency list) are suggestive of potentially meaningful patterns that could have been overlooked had the text been read manually.

This edited collection, What's in a Word-list?, brings together cutting-edge research written by leading experts in the field on the construction of word-lists for the analysis of both frequency and keyword usage. Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the most exciting research being conducted in this subject.

Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

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Richard Xiao praises the book as an impressive collection by internationally renowned experts, offering insightful and inspiring case studies on word and keyword lists in corpus-based text analysis. Michaela Mahlberg describes it as an exciting and stimulating exploration of fundamental issues in corpus linguistics and the wider potential of corpus methods. The Electronic Library notes it as a valuable, up-to-date resource for researchers interested in word frequency issues.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780754672401

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 March 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

  • Edited by Dawn Archer

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 498g

Pages: 200

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

About the Author

Dawn Archer, Reader in Corpus Linguistics and Head of English Language and Linguistics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Dawn Archer, John M. Kirk, David L. Hoover, Mark Davies, Christian Kay, Mike Scott, Tony McEnery, Paul Baker, Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Rayson.

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