TEXT MINING FOR HISTORIANS COURSE
UNIT 3: ANTCONC: BASIC CORPUS ANALYSIS Pt 1
Lecture (22 Mins)









KEY READINGS

* Eva Andersen and Jolien Gijibels, AntConc, historians and their diverging research methods (2020). Link
* Svenja Adolphs, Introducing Electronic Text Analysis: A Practical Guide for Language and Literary Studies (Trowbridge, 2006). An excellent and concise book, still excellent after 15 years- and a recommend starting point.
*John Sinclair, Corpus Concordance and Collocation (Oxford, 1991). This is a classic pioneering text, but still referenced a great deal! The two textbooks below are modern evolutions of Sinclair.*
Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie, Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2011)
*Magali Paquot and Stefan Th. Gries, A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (Springer, 2020)

EXERCISES
Alone, or with a friend, consider think about your reflections to the exercises for classes 1 and 2. Hopefully by now you will have an idea of what sort of corpus might be useful to you, and how you might structure it and collect data for it, and add metadata to it. Think about the main techniques outlined here. Which of these – in theory – might be useful? Which ones less useful? How might they augment your existing analysis with the methods you already use?