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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2018

Vaclav Brezina
Vaclav Brezina
Affiliation:
Lancaster University

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
A Practical Guide
 , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. About This Book

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. 1Introduction: Statistics Meets Corpus Linguistics

    1. 1.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 1.2What Is Statistics? Science, Corpus Linguistics and Statistics

    3. 1.3Basic Statistical Terminology

    4. 1.4Building of Corpora and Research Design

    5. 1.5Exploring Data and Data Visualization

    6. 1.6Application and Further Examples: Do Fiction Writers Use More Adjectives than Academics?

    7. 1.7Exercises

    8. Things to Remember

    9. Advanced Reading

  6. 2Vocabulary: Frequency, Dispersion and Diversity

    1. 2.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 2.2Tokens, Types, Lemmas and Lexemes

    3. 2.3Words in a Frequency List

    4. 2.4The Whelk Problem: Dispersion

    5. 2.5Which Words Are Important? Average Reduced Frequency

    6. 2.6Lexical Diversity: Type/Token Ratio (TTR), STTR and MATTR

    7. 2.7Application and Further Examples: Do the British Talk about Weather All the Time?

    8. 2.8Exercises

    9. Things to Remember

    10. Advanced Reading

  7. 3Semantics and Discourse: Collocations, Keywords and Reliability of Manual Coding

    1. 3.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 3.2Collocations and Association Measures

    3. 3.3Collocation Graphs and Networks: Exploring Cross-associations

    4. 3.4Keywords and Lockwords

    5. 3.5Inter-rater Agreement Measures

    6. 3.6Application and Further Examples: What Do Readers of British Newspapers Think about Immigration?

    7. 3.7Exercises

    8. Things to Remember

    9. Advanced Reading

  8. 4Lexico-grammar: From Simple Counts to Complex Models

    1. 4.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 4.2Analysing a Lexico-grammatical Feature

    3. 4.3Cross-tabulation, Percentages and Chi-squared Test

    4. 4.4Logistic Regression

    5. 4.5Application: That or Which?

    6. 4.6Exercises

    7. Things to Remember

    8. Advanced Reading

  9. 5Register Variation: Correlation, Clusters and Factors

    1. 5.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 5.2Relationships between Variables: Correlations

    3. 5.3Classification: Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis

    4. 5.4Multidimensional Analysis (MD)

    5. 5.5Application: Registers in New Zealand English

    6. 5.6Exercises

    7. Things to Remember

    8. Advanced Reading

  10. 6Sociolinguistics and Stylistics: Individual and Social Variation

    1. 6.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 6.2Individual Style and Social Variation: Where Does a Sociolinguistic Variable Start?

    3. 6.3Group Comparison: T-Test, ANOVA, Mann–Whitney U Test, Kruskal–Wallis Test

    4. 6.4Individual Style: Correspondence Analysis

    5. 6.5Linguistic Context: Mixed-Effects Models

    6. 6.6Application: Who Is This Person from the White House?

    7. 6.7Exercises

    8. Things to Remember

    9. Advanced Reading

  11. 7Change over Time: Working Diachronic Data

    1. 7.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 7.2Time as a Variable: Measuring and Visualizing Time

    3. 7.3Finding and Interpreting Differences: Percentage Change and the Bootstrap Test

    4. 7.4Grouping Time Periods: Neighbouring Cluster Analysis

    5. 7.5Modelling Changes in Discourse: Peaks and Troughs and UFA

    6. 7.6Application: Colours in the Seventeenth Century

    7. 7.7Exercises

    8. Things to Remember

    9. Advanced Reading

  12. 8Bringing Everything Together: Ten Principles of Statistical Thinking, Meta-analysis and Effect Sizes

    1. 8.1What Is This Chapter About?

    2. 8.2Ten Principles of Statistical Thinking

    3. 8.3Meta-analysis: Statistical Synthesis of Research Results

    4. 8.4Effect Sizes: A Guide for Meaningful Use

    5. 8.5Exercises

    6. Things to Remember

    7. Advanced Reading

  13. Final Remarks

  14. References

  15. Index

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  • Vaclav Brezina, Lancaster University
  • Book: Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
  • Online publication: 14 September 2018
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