Section outline

    • Culpeper, J. (2009). Keyness. Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 14:1, 29–59.

    • Reading assignment: discussion

      •What is a keyword?
      •How can semantic tagging be useful in keyword analysis?
      •What is a style marker (according to Nils Erik Enkvist)?
      •How can keywords be extracted from a corpus?
      •Why does the choice of a reference corpus matter?
      •What is a „cut-off point“?
      •Are there more types of keywords?
      •What is „aboutness“?