[Corpora-List] Keyness across Texts

[Seth Grimes]

Same here.  I tried to look at the book and the software messed up my Web 
browser.  The book was unreadable.

 					Seth


On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Lou Burnard wrote:

> Ute Römer wrote:
>> Dear Duncan,
>>  You may want to check Mike Scott's and Christopher Tribble's book /Textual 
>> Patterns/ (Benjamins, 2006, browsable at 
>> http://site.ebrary.com/pub/benjamins/Doc?isbn=9789027222930) which contains 
>> some very useful chapters on keyness and aboutness (chs. 4 and 5 if I 
>> remember correctly) and discusses different ways of identifying keywords in 
>> texts and corpora, and of interpreting the search output.
>> 
>
> I'd love to read this book, but alas Mr Benjamins has chosen to provide 
> access to it only via some bizarro proprietary closed browser software which 
> isn't available on my computer. Whatever happened to the idea of making stuff 
> *accessible* over the World Wide Web? I find it really depressing that people 
> in the research community continue to fall for this kind of shameless 
> protectionism...
>
> OK, rant over. Maybe I'll just have to pop into Blackwells...
>
>
>

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Seth Grimes   Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management
               Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP), Contributing Editor
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