Reference Corpus: Corpus of Contemporary American English

Corpora: 1) American TV-Series

Programs: AntConc

Tasks:

  • Download the corpus here
  • Download the COCA word list here
  • Create a word list for the corpus
  • Generate a keyword list by comparing the previously created word lists
  • Analyse the first 200 entries of the keyword lists => What can we learn from it?

Notes:

  • Anthony Laurence (the programmer of AntConc) has his own youtube channel with detailed introductory videos for his programs (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5bgZtdgKyj5un66ZOGGN2A)

Last modified: Thursday, 10 September 2015, 10:24 AM