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Identifying distributional patterns in eighteenth-century periodical essays
2015
Discourse and Interaction
This paper investigates the distribution of words and clusters within a single corpus and across a pair of related corpora. With a corpus containing Samuel Johnson's periodical essays as the target corpus and a corpus of Addison's essays as the reference corpus, it is shown how standard techniques for identifying keywords can be extended to identifying distributional tendencies within texts at the levels of sentence, paragraph and whole section/essay. Supplementing the investigation with
doi:10.5817/di2015-1-5
fatcat:3obcgeshjrabliywxdz2rcz3dq