What is it about?
This text introduces the concept of collocational networks as a means of understanding language use and of managing lexical knowledge.
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Why is it important?
This was the first publication outlining this important methodological approach that makes sense out of language clouds. Clouds simply provide a form of mist fro the lexically ignorant, networks allow you to explore that data and extract meaning in context. It is a true corpus-dtievn methodology in a Sinclairian perpective. Much copied, name changing is a bad academic practice.
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Much work has gone on since, but this remains the key foundation stone. The work has been adapted by a number of talented researchers, such as Araceli Alonso, and copied by many less talented who dislike citing sources. Intellectual theft is a speciality in some countries and certain open access journals are happy to ignore it. Including the big nasty company that dominates much scientific publishing.
Professor Geoffrey Clive Williams
Universite de Bretagne-Sud
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This page is a summary of: Collocational Networks, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, January 1998, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.3.1.07wil.
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