BarlowTalk

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Connecting texts to †

Lack of contexts †

• typical case: Biber
  • context is often only referred in terms of the name of the corpus

• Concordances
  • highlight contextual information
    • frequency info
    • collocations and phraseology
    • variation

• Corpus approaches and successes

• lexicogrammar
• usage-based linguistics
• variation across text types

• thing in concordances
  • sentence-initial: one thing to do is ... (cataphoric)
  • sentence-final: that kind of thing (anaphoric)

• Hoey 2005: Text colligation

• Position variation of ngrams & pframes
  • O'Donnell and Romer 2010 (ICAME)

• Link analysis more to contexts, text structures

• Collocate 2.0
  • ngrams
    • user only selects n
    • order by MI, freq
    • select sequence, show concordance lines
  • P-frames
  • lexical bundles
  • collocation extraction
    • user only selects thresholds and values
    • find "collocates" of "collocations" [VERY INTERESTING]

• WordSkew?
  • idea of a skewed distribution
  • divide the texts into x sections
  • focus on particular sentences/sections
  • compare word distributions over these subcomponents
    • get the histograms
    • then click on the bars to go to the concordance lines