2. Wordle
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Outline
Using corpus to investigate
language02
Using an Offline Corpus03
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Working with concordance
lines in a Word Processor04
Preposition Dance
3. Wordle
Most visually accessible way to view
analysis of text by frequency
Counting the words text, assigning a
font size proportional to the frequency
Displaying the result in an attractive
way
Does not include very common words
5. Give the tool to satisfy you in a sense of curiosity about
language and explore the patterns that emerge
Using corpus to
investigate language
A huge collections of texts
analyzed by poweful computer
The process of using corpus to investigate
language is absorbing, facinating, and
obsession.
A corpus may or may not be useful
The ability to enrich our understanding by giving fast insight
into associations of specific words in variety of context
10. State of the art
A phrase that is used to replace a specific term or
meaning.
The meaning of state of the art can be anything.
For example advertisement, the meanng could be a
product includes all the most recent improvement.
( The state of the art shall be held to comprimase
everything made available to the public)
Think of an Ironic use of state of the art where you mean
clapped-out or old fashioned.
My dad has a state of the art computer. It runs Windows
95 but struggles with XP
11. Explores the way preposotions work with
verbs to give wide spectrum of meanings
and nuance
Some prepositions such as “in, out, up,
down, to, by, off, on , through can be
match with common verbs like “eat, sit, or
run”
Preposition Dance
ALLPPT.com _ Free PowerPoint Templates, Diagrams and Charts
The phrase dictionary project
The diversity of meanings enconded in even
simplest phrase.
The ability to analyse the relationship formed
between words