PC analysis of key words — And key key words

Scott, Mike

doi:10.1016/s0346-251x(97)00011-0

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“…The notion of keywords, originated by Firth (1957), was substantially developed by William (1976William ( , 1983 and Scott (1997Scott ( , 2000. Firth described the importance of pivotal or focal words in language, while William spoke of significant binding words in texts, using the term keyword to describe this.…”

Section: The Keyword Methodsmentioning

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“…Both of them used the term to refer to basic words in culture and society. But Scott (1997Scott ( , 2000Scott ( , 2006 modified the term keyword to stand for words which are particularly common or uncommon in a text or group of texts in relation to certain norms. Hence the notion becomes extremely powerful in giving insights into the content and style of texts (Johansson 2007).…”

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A Corpus-based Lexical Study of Sermons in Nigeria

Esimaje¹

2012

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Religious sermons play a very significant role in a pluralist setting like Nigeria, as organs of social, political and moral education. The fulfilment of these functions is partly contingent on the effective use of language. If the sermon-giver and his audience draw from the same pool of lexis, communication in the genre will not only be enhanced but its teaching and practice will also align, thereby bridging the gap between the two. It is to this end that this study attempts to identify the words most associated with Christian sermons in English, in Nigeria. To carry out this study, a corpus of present-day sermons in Nigeria was constructed and compared to a reference corpus of sermons from other parts of the world, in order to find out those lexical items which are characteristic of sermons, whether in terms of types, frequency or usage. The study reveals the role of textual context to be the definition of thematic focus because, although the sermon words in the two contexts manifest high similarity, their degrees of significance in the contexts differ substantially. Additionally, the findings reveal diversity, both in lexical choice and the discourse structure of sermons. However, in both contexts, the sermons demonstrate similarity in semantic grouping. So, for the teacher of English for religious purposes (ERP) and the user of English in church contexts, this work offers insights into the lexical world of sermons in Nigeria.

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Section: The Keyword Methodsmentioning

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Section: The Keyword Methodsmentioning

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A Corpus-based Lexical Study of Sermons in Nigeria

Esimaje¹

2012

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“…We have used both strategies in the course of the project, but found that the second one (separate subcorpora) was more practical for use with WordSmith Tools (Scott 2008). Word and cluster (or n-gram) frequency lists were created from the sentences of each of these categories and pair-wise comparisons are made between the resulting lists using the KeyWords procedure (Scott 1997). 5 The outcome of this procedure is a matrix that classifies each item (word or group of words) found to be 'key' in at least one of the comparisons, indicating whether it has a significant tendency to occur in various locations in text, namely, Text-Initial, ParagraphInitial and Non-Initial positions.…”

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“…2 We (re)applied the 'key word' procedure (Scott 1997(Scott , 2002 to compare a sub-corpus of text-initial sentences with one containing sentences that do not begin a text or paragraph. The outcomes of the comparison are lists of items that are over-and underused in those positions within newspaper texts.…”

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Exploring text-initial words, clusters and concgrams in a newspaper corpus

O’Donnell

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Mahlberg

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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“…It is, however, Mike Scott who has popularized the practice of keyword analysis in this line. Interestingly, Scott (1997) also relates his work to that of Williams in the 1970s in terms of its purpose. Unlike Williams' study that hardly paid attention to text and genre and left methodological tools for the analysis of meaning completely undiscussed, Scott's work is a text-focused one and adopts a standard procedure of keywords extraction.…”

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Using Wmatrix to Explore Discourse of Economic Growth

Hu¹

2015

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Growth is a concept of particular interest for economic discourse. This paper sets out to explore a small corpus of economic growth, which consists of articles from The Economist. The corpus software used in this study is a web-based tool Wmatrix, an automatic tagging software able to assign semantic field (domain) tags, and to permit the extraction of key words and key semantic domains by applying the keyness calculation to tag frequency lists. The results show that at 99% confidence (or p < 0.01), the cut-off of 6.63 (log likelihood value) indicates that there are 1051 positive keywords (including multiword expressions) and 80 key semantic domains generated from the corpus. It is evident that BRICs or the emerging economies/markets, in particular China and India, are a big concern regarding economic growth over the past years. A number of examples of possible ways forward in teaching methodology are presented.

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PC analysis of key words — And key key words

Cited by 412 publications

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A Corpus-based Lexical Study of Sermons in Nigeria

A Corpus-based Lexical Study of Sermons in Nigeria

Exploring text-initial words, clusters and concgrams in a newspaper corpus

Using Wmatrix to Explore Discourse of Economic Growth

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