Week 4: 📗 Using Corpus Analysis Software to Analyse Specialized Texts 📙

         👉 What is a corpus?

                              Corpus is a collection of texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.

             💬   Sources of language corpora

           -You can subscribe to a large corpus provider such as The British National Corpus (BNC)
                 -Use web concordancing 
                 -Use corpus analysis software such as Antconc, Wordsmith and Paraconc etc.

          
              💭  Sources of specialized texts
                       -Printed materials
                                  -Word document texts
                                  -CD-ROMs
                                  -Texts on the Web
                                  -Online databases


       👌  Getting start with Antconc
    
                          Start by Run the programe then, Open file or Open Dir . After that you choose the function and click Clear All Tools and Files before selecting opening new files. The last you click Save Output to text Files to save output such as concordance lines.


                  From I used Antconc to analyze that makes me know about pattern of some word or grammar, collocations and every form of each word, some word has many meaning such as 
very + adj. , like + to +v.1+ , like means "to be similar to" and "in the same way"