What's in a word-list? investigating word frequency and keyword extraction /

• Other Authors: Archer, Dawn.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, UK : Ashgate, c2009.
• Series: Digital research in the arts and humanities.
• Subjects: English language > Word frequency.; English language > Word order.; English language > Etomology.; English language.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Spelling.; Electronic books.
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This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research written by leading experts on 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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; 1 Does Frequency Really Matter?; 2 Word Frequency Use or Misuse?; 3 Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics and Authorship Attribution; 4 Word Frequency in Context: Alternative Architectures for Examining Related Words, Register Variation and Historical Change; 5 Issues for Historical and Regional Corpora: First Catch Your Word; 6 In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus; 7 Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and Media Censorship.