CONCORDANCE

A collection of

the occurrences of

word form.An index of a word form.

The Function of Concordancer

Make wordlists

Count the frequency and the percentage of words in text.

Make wordlists of occurrence of each word in its context. The contexts can be picked

and selected by the reader itself.

Can sort large texts.

The wordlists can be printed out and saved as a reference.

Concordance is being used

Language teaching and

learning Data mining and data clean

up

Literary and linguistic

scholarship

Translation and language

engineeringCorpus

linguistic

Natural language software

development

Lexicography

Content analysis in many discipline. E.g.:

history, politics.

Examples of major concordance

The Oxford Concordance Program for PC(OCP)

Word Cruncher

TACT

Other Software : The Child Language Analysis (CLAN), COALA, The Longman Mini Concordance

REFERENCE

Dr. Rozina Abdul Ghani, Concordance PowerPoint Slides Show, ENGL 4740, Computer Applications in Language Studies, Sem 2, 2012/2013.