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What is AntConc you may ask?

 

AntConc is a free multi-purpose corpus analysis toolkit that houses a comprehensive set of tools that includes “concordancer, word and keyword frequency generators, tools for cluster and lexical bundle analysis, and a word distribution plot.” The software was created by Lawrence Anthony, a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Waseda University in Japan. You Can find the software here.

 

https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

 

Some of AntConc’s tools overlap with Voyants’, for example the trends tool in Voyant displays similar information to the plot tool in AntConc, however, whereas Voyant displays the progression over the documents over a graph and in comparison to one another, the plot tool does it over a series of horizontal bars that can be compared. Voyant’s tool is visually more appealing and displays the documents so I will be using that tool instead of AntConc’s Plot.

 

The AntConc tools I intend to use are the KWIC (Keyword in context) which displays the instances of the word or words searched and how it is used in the sentences or context that they were used.

 

 

The collocate tool looks for words that are nearby the word searched more than other words in the corpus but not directly next to necessarily so they don’t form a traditional cluster; the cluster tool displays word chunks or words directly next to the word searched and the number of instances of them;  and the word clould which I can only assume most people are familiar with displays a “Cloud” or artistic style grouping of the most common words within the corpus.

 

These are the tools I have run my corpus through and will be utilizing to analyze against the traditional research I have completed.

 

Although it was difficult to initially add a stopwords list (had to download a newer version) I was able to upload my stopwords file which also aided in narrowing down the results.

 

If you would like to read more about this software you can visit the link below.

 

https://www.laurenceanthony.net/research/iwlel_2004_anthony_antconc.pdf

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