Keyness in texts

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This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key - and thereby reflect or promote important themes - in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which differ in their centrality to text meaning is of increasing interest to corpus linguistics. At the same time software resources are yielding increasingly more detailed ways of identifying and studying the …

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Full title :Keyness in texts / edited by Marina Bondi, Mike Scott.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 251 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027287663, 902728766X, 1282897330, 9781282897335
oclc:ocn690177218
LC Classification:P302
Dewey Decimal:401/.43

Keyness in Texts; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Perspectives on keywords and keyness: An introduction; I. Exploring keyness; Three concepts of keywords; Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails; Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis; Hyperlinks: Keywords or key words?; Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web?; II. Keyness in specialised discourse; Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts; Keywords and phrases in political speeches; Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing.

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Corpora (Linguistics) Corpus linguistique Discourse analysis Fraseologi Korpuslingvistik LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Phraseologie Phraseology semantics Semantik Sémantique Textlingvistik