AntConc - Frequency lists

A video showing how to use AntConc software for frequency analyses.

Notes

Software used: AntConc3.2.1 -- website: http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

In this video I press 'Start' after choosing different sort options. However, if you have a big corpus, it will take a long time to regenerate the results, so another method is to just click 'Sort', because then the software can just re-sort the already generated results.

Acknowledgments

My thanks go to Bethany Stanford who collected the corpus used in this video (15 speeches given by Barack Obama over the course of his election campaign which ran from 2007 to his subsequent election and inauguration in 2009). My thanks also go to Laurence Anthony for useful feedback on this video which I have incorporated in the notes above.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• AntConc
• corpus linguistics
• corpus linguistic software
• frequency list
• Monika Bednarek