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Literary Concordances
A Complete Handbook for the Preparation of Manual and Computer Concordances
- 1st Edition - November 1, 1979
- Author: T. H. Howard-Hill
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 9 3 3 - 0 7 6 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 6 7 5 - 3
All problems likely to be encountered by anyone who intends to prepare a literary concordance are discussed on a practical level, although there is substantial examination of more… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAll problems likely to be encountered by anyone who intends to prepare a literary concordance are discussed on a practical level, although there is substantial examination of more advanced concording techniques which the computer makes it possible to adopt. Although the emphasis is on works in English, the structural principles which are analysed in the book can be applied readily to works in other languages
(partial) Preface
Introduction
Selection of base text
Arrangement - alphabetisation, hyphenated compounds, old and modern spelling heading words, homograph distinction
Organisation of entries: contexts, computer-extracted contexts, word field, text sigla, text reference field, frequency counts
Comprehensiveness: foreign language, other non-authorial material, textual variants
Statistics
Other material
Special forms of concordance
Conclusion
Appendix: COCOA, R.L. Oakman
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
- No. of pages: 108
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 1979
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781493307654
- eBook ISBN: 9781483296753
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T. H. Howard-Hill
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University of South Carolina, USA