Textual Patterns: Key Words and Corpus Analysis in Language Education

Part II, written by Christopher Tribble, explores a number of practical applications of key word analysis: the pedagogy of grammar and vocabulary; the manifestations of the pragmatics of personal and professional contiguity on business communication; the effect of expertise on vocabulary in literary analysis; the use of key words to track pragmatic issues such as gender in journalism; and finally the use of concordancing tools and key word analysis for the exploration of short literary texts. Chapters 8 "English for Academic Purposes" and 9 "What Counts in Current Journalism" respectively demonstrate the lexical and grammatical indications of "expert and apprentice performances in literary criticism" and how key word analysis not only reveals the shifting topical flow of news reporting over several years but also how journalism subtly reinforces gender bias in language use.