ghoti

Short for Key Word In Context. It is a way of looking at a search term (type) in a concordance program with the keyword centred so as to see the patterns created by the other words, its context.

Below is an example of a concordance search of the term ‘violence’ in a corpus.

The words ‘domestic’, ‘TV’ and ‘of’ seem to stand out and warrants further investigation. This is even before the surrounding text has been sorted.

Other Corpus Linguistic Terms:

• case
• type-token ratio
• collocation
• KWIC
• type
• token