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Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction,... more
Keyness analysis is perhaps the most widely used technique within corpus approaches to (critical) discourse studies. This chapter will first define the nature of keyness, and outline the research foci that keyness analysis can be usefully... more
Fandom is a growing phenomenon in the contemporary user-generated mediascape, inasmuch as it is capitalizing on the unprecedented possibilities of publication, distribution and interaction made available by digital technologies... more
Keyness analysis is perhaps the most widely used technique within corpus approaches to (critical) discourse studies. As an automated keyness analysis usually returns a much larger number of key items than is feasible to examine manually... more
""In this paper we examine the definitions of two widely-used interrelated constructs in corpus linguistics, keyness and keywords, as presented in the literature and corpus software manuals. In particular, we focus on a. the consistency... more
This presentation provides a critical examination of the following: the nature of keyness, the types and foci of keyness analysis, possible units of a keyness analysis, the principled selection of corpora, appropriate metrics for... more
The article reports research on the concept of key words as words statistically significant in a text or corpus. It reviews approaches to eliciting key words used in various software products for language analysis and the rationale for... more
Length motifs (L-motifs) are defined as sequences of words whose lengths are monotonously increasing. In recent years, L-motifs have attracted well-deserved attention as they provide a new view of texts and their syntagmatic properties... more