Book contents
- Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
- Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Book
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Vocabulary
- 3 Semantics and Discourse
- 4 Lexico-grammar
- 5 Register Variation
- 6 Sociolinguistics and Stylistics
- 7 Change over Time
- 8 Bringing Everything Together
- Final Remarks
- References
- Index
- References
3 - Semantics and Discourse
Collocations, Keywords and Reliability of Manual Coding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2018
Book contents
- Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
- Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Book
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Vocabulary
- 3 Semantics and Discourse
- 4 Lexico-grammar
- 5 Register Variation
- 6 Sociolinguistics and Stylistics
- 7 Change over Time
- 8 Bringing Everything Together
- Final Remarks
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, we will explore meanings of words in context, which is an area important to both linguistic and social analyses. Topics discussed here – collocations, keywords and manual coding of concordance lines – play a key role both in the study of semantics (‘dictionary’ meanings of words) and in discourse analysis. The chapter starts with a simple premise: word meanings can best be investigated through the analysis of repeated linguistic patterns in corpora. Techniques such as keywords help us to draw attention to words characteristic of particular texts or corpora that can be further investigated using methods such as collocation, investigating repeated co-occurrence of words, and concordancing, analysing examples of word use in context.
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