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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Series Preface xvii 1 Does Frequency Really Matter? 1 Dawn Archer 2 Word Frequency Use or Misuse? 17 John M. Kirk 3 Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics and Authorship Attribution 35 David L. Hoover 4 Word Frequency in Context: Alternative Architectures for Examining Related Words, Register Variation and Historical Change 53 Mark Davies 5 Issues for Historical and Regional Corpora: First Catch Your Word 69 Christian Kay 6 In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus 79 Mike Scott 7 Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and Media Censorship 93 Tony McEnery 8 ‘The question is, how cruel is it?’ Keywords, Fox Hunting and the House of Commons 125 Paul Baker 9 Love – ‘a familiar or a devil’? An Exploration of Key Domains in Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies 137 Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Rayson

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Contents

List of Figures viiList of Tables ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgements xvSeries Preface xvii

1 does Frequency really Matter? 1 Dawn Archer

2 word Frequency Use or Misuse? 17 John M. Kirk

3 word Frequency, statistical stylistics and authorship attribution 35 David L. Hoover

4 word Frequency in Context: alternative architectures for Examining related words, register Variation and historical Change 53

Mark Davies

5 issues for historical and regional Corpora: First Catch Your word 69 Christian Kay

6 in search of a Bad reference Corpus 79 Mike Scott

7 Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary whitehouse and Media Censorship 93 Tony McEnery

8 ‘The question is, how cruel is it?’ Keywords, Fox hunting and the house of Commons 125 Paul Baker

9 Love – ‘a familiar or a devil’? an Exploration of Key domains in shakespeare’s Comedies and tragedies 137 Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Rayson

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What’s in a Word-list?vi

10 Promoting the wider Use of word Frequency and Keyword Extraction techniques 159 Dawn Archer

Appendix 1 163Appendix 2 USAS taxonomy 168Bibliography 171Index 177