《Concordances,collocationsandconnotation》.pptVIP

Concordances, collocations and connotation Barnbrook G (1996) Language and Computers. Edinburgh: EUP. Chapters 3,4,5 Partington A (1998) Patterns and Meanings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Chapters 1,2,4 Lexical information in corpora Start looking at the kind of information (about individual words) that can be got from corpora Simple frequency information Distribution information Collocation (co-occurrence information) Connotation (semantic prosody) Introduce basic ideas Future topics Statistics Case studies Frequency information Most banal information: counting how many times a word (“type”)