Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to corporanbsp;-nbsp;bodies of linguistic data. Written specifically for students studying this topic for the first time, the book begins with a discussion of the underlying principles of electronic text analysis. It then examines how these corpora enhance our understanding of literary and non-literary works.

In the first section the author introduces the concepts of concordance and lexical frequency, concepts whichnbsp;are then applied to a range of areas of language study. Key areas examined are the use of on-line corpora to complement traditional stylistic analysis, and the ways in which methods such as concordance and frequency counts can reveal a particular ideology within a text.

Presenting an accessible and thorough understanding of the underlying principles of electronic text analysis, the book contains abundant illustrative examples and a glossary with definitions of main concepts. Itnbsp;will also benbsp;supported by a companion website with links to on-line corpora so that students can apply their knowledge to further study.

The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415320216nbsp;

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