Concordance - posting 5

My Dearest friend,

i would like to explain about "Concordance" in language context. Basically, what is concordance? so, let me give some descriptions of it as i've learned from my Language and IT class conducted by Assoc Prof Datin Dr Norizan.


Concordance is an alphabetized list of the most frequently occurring words in a book, excluding common words such as "of" and "it." The font size of a word is proportional to the number of times it occurs in the book. Hover your mouse over a word to see how many times it occurs, or click on a word to see a list of book excerpts containing that word.

therefore, it will be more easier for us as a reader or researcher to figure out words counting as well as reducing tensions and saving more time consumptions.

in recent times, "concordancer" has been invented as a software and plug - in tools which will help to the usage of corncodancing.

Below is some articles which regard to the article:

With Concordance, you can

• make indexes and word lists
• count word frequencies
• compare different usages of a word
• analyse keywords
• find phrases and idioms

Concordance is being used in

• Language teaching and learning
• Data mining and data clean-up
• Literary and linguistic scholarship
• Translation and language engineering
• Corpus linguistics
• Natural language software development
• Lexicography
• Content analysis in many disciplines including accountancy, history, marketing, musicology, politics, geography, and media studies

link

LINGUISTIC INSIGHTS FROM CONCORDANCING

Concordancers are certainly not tools that computer novices can be turned loose on without proper preparation beforehand. In many instances, both students and teachers must be made aware of the methodological considerations underpinning use of such software. Inherent limitations in the database are rarely intuitively understood. Why, for example, should the word 'potential' never occur in a corpus of biology readings, yet occur repeatedly in a corpus of physics texts, always as a property of energy? The relationship between raw data and output is not obvious to all, and the very existence of the text base, its particular bias, and its relevance to the students must all be explained and emphasized.

Formulation of productive queries is particularly difficult for language learners, who may need assistance until they have become familiar with the technique. Misspellings which spoil productive searches are common, and successful use of wild cards requires near-native competence in anticipating word derivations. It is also difficult for language learners to independently phrase queries so that they will expose subtle patterns in the language. Such patterns will likely have to be pre-considered by the teacher/facilitator, and until students have got the hang of concordancing, heuristics for getting at patterns will likely have to be worked out in advance and spelled out to students as well.

for further reading please click

Therefore, as language is dynamic and will always facing changes, such software and more research upon new technologies for linguist usage are very important. English and language is so fascinating to be learned as language will narrow barriers. Concordance is among beneficial software for educational purposes.