Contents

List of Figures 
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
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Does Frequency Really Matter?

Dawn Archer

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2 Word Frequency Use or Misuse?

John M. Kirk

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Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics and Authorship Attribution

David L. Hoover

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Word Frequency in Context: Alternative Architectures for Examining

Related Words, Register Variation and Historical Change
Mark Davies

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5 Issues for Historical and Regional Corpora: First Catch Your Word

Christian Kay

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6 In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus

Mike Scott 

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Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and Media

Censorship
Tony McEnery

The question is, how cruel is it? Keywords, Fox Hunting and
the House of Commons
Paul Baker

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Love a familiar or a devil? An Exploration of Key Domains in

Shakespeares Comedies and Tragedies
Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Rayson

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Whats in a Word-list?

Promoting the Wider Use of Word Frequency and Keyword

Extraction Techniques
Dawn Archer

Appendix 1
Appendix 2 USAS taxonomy 
Bibliography
Index

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