Corpus Analysis with Antconc
Corpus Analysis with Antconc Heather Froehlich Corpus analysis is a form of text analysis which allows you to make comparisons between textual objects at a large scale Cited from: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/corpus-analysis-with-antconc Contents Introduction Tutorial downloads A broad outline of this tutorial: Working with Plain Text Files Getting Started with AntConc: The AntConc user interface, loading corpora Loading Corpora Searching Keywords in Context Start with a basic search Search Operators The * operator (wildcard) The | operator (“or”) Collocates and word lists Comparing corpora Discussion: Making meaningful comparisons Further resources for this tutorial Introduction Corpus analysis is a form of text analysis which allows you to make comparisons between textual objects at a large scale (so-called ‘distant reading’). It allows us to see things that we don’t necessarily see when reading as humans. If you’ve go...