Introduction to AntConc

How to install AntConc? By Laurence ANTHONY, Waseda University, Tokyo http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software/antconc3.2.2.1w.exe Googlesearch for “download AntConc”

What will we analyze? We need a collection of texts (corpus) of an adequate size.

Freely Available Corpora •The Oxford Text Archive www.ota.ox.ac.uk •Warwick Centre for Applied Linguistics http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/ •Open American National Corpus http://americannationalcorpus.org/OANC/OANC-1.0.1-UTF8.zip

Freely Available Corpora •The Oxford Text Archive www.ota.ox.ac.uk •Warwick Centre for Applied Linguistics http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/ •Open American National Corpus http://americannationalcorpus.org/OANC/OANC-1.0.1-UTF8.zip

The British Academic Spoken English Corpus Manual developed at the Universities of Warwick and Reading a collection of transcripts of lectures and seminars recorded at two universities in the UK during the period 1998-2005. recorded in a variety of university departments. four broad disciplinary groups, each represented by 40 lectures and 10 seminars.

These groups are: • Arts and Humanities • Life and Medical Sciences • Physical Sciences • Social Studies and Sciences.

These groups are: • Arts and Humanities , 40 text files, untagged • Life and Medical Sciences • Physical Sciences • Social Studies and Sciences.

An excerpt: …now what are you reading now he asked as i put down the book and reached for my jacket i was labouring over Troilus and Criseyde reading an essay on Criseyde's character you love this rubbish eh he laughed you'll end up an old professor wanking by the fireside putting aside your pipe and warming up your hand first i should say this is not a autobiographical work [laughter] in any s-, in any way right [laughter] er sm0003: you've said that before [laughter] nm0001: warming up your hand first [laughter] i looked at him sternly only a joke man he said with mocking reassurance only a joke i sat on the bus deep in thought trying to work out why she should have betrayed him so easily why after all those pure shy exchanges the secret glances

How to use AntConc? Open the read-me file online and read it. http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software/README_antconc3.2.1.txt

How will we analyze this corpus? Open AntConc FileOpen FilesSelect the files you would like to analyze by ctrl+shift (or clicking with your mouse’s left button)Open You will see the selected files in the left window (titled “corpus files”)

Word List Let’s get an idea of our corpus. How many words in total does our corpus have? How many word types does our corpus have? Click “Word List” Make your selectionsStart

Concordance Let’s search for a single word.

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