How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book,
Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English …

This paper reports the extension of the key words method for the comparison of corpora.
Using automatic tagging software that assigns part-of-speech and semantic field (domain) …

This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories
and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to …

Frequency-sorted word lists have long been part of the standard methodology for exploiting
corpora. Sinclair (1991: 30) noted that" anyone studying a text is likely to need to know how …

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses
about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools …

This article presents an empirical evaluation of text classification methods in literary domain.
This study compared the performance of two popular algorithms, naïve Bayes and support …

In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming's Casino
Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as …

Considered one of the most astonishing narrative achievements of the twentieth century
Modernist novel and Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves (1931) is perhaps her most …

In recent times, Chick Lit has risen to a certain level of prominence. This is the first book
length study that looks into the distinctive features of this much-discussed genre. Chick Lit is …

One of the important tasks of creating the Corpus of Russian Short Stories of the first third of
the 20th century is to identify and describe the changes that took place in the Russian …