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You can download AntConc here: <https://www.laurenceanthony.

net/software/antconc/> It
is a very small app and you can put it anywhere.

When you open it, you will see this:


You can upload one or many texts to AntConc. The texts you upload MUST be in << .txt >>
format. For example, if the text you have is in Word, “save as” “plain text”. This will take you
to this screen. Save the document in Unicode (UTF-8). You need to do that for AntConc to be
able to read it. Don’t worry, for now, we supply the texts.
If you have several .txt documents in a folder, use the “Open Dir” command in the “File”
menu. That way, all the documents in the folder you choose will be uploaded to AntConc as
you can see on the next page:
Here you see all the documents uploaded to AntConc on the left:
If you only want to upload one text, use “Open File(s)” in the “File” menu
Once you have uploaded the file -here Shaespeare_Sonnets, you click on “Word List” and
then click on “Start” and that will get you a list of the most frequent words -normally
grammatical/function words are right at the top.
If you want to eliminate the grammatical words, you click on “Word List”:
Then you click on “Use a stoplist below”. Click on “Open” and then “Apply”. (We have
supplied you with a stop list -see AV)
Then, click on “Word List” and then “Start” and you will see that there are no grammatical
words in the stoplist (“the”, “and”, “it”, etc.) and that now the first word in the list is “love”:
To see the collocations of the word “love”, click on “Concordance” and then write “love” in
the search box and press “Start”. You will see a list like the one below:
You can save the list by going to “Save Output”. (You can save the output of word lists and
keyword lists too!)
Save the list to your desktop, for example:
This is what the list looks like -you can eliminate “Shakespeare_Sonnets.txt” to make it
easier to read.
At any time, you can remove the stoplist. Just go to “Tool Preferences” and click on “Clear”.
It only affects the word list feature.
Now let us look at N-grams (“frequently occurring contiguous words that constitute a phrase
or pattern of use” (Greaves and Warren, 2010: 213))

Click on Clusters/N-grams in the top menu. Below, we have clicked on “Clusters/N-Grams”


and then we have chosen “N-Grams”, from the bottom menu and then we have chosen an
N-Gram Size of Min-3 – Max-3 and a Min(imum) Freq(uency) of 3. Then we have clicked on
“Start”. The results are below:
If we click on “my love s”, we can see all the instances of this construction:
If we click on the first in the list: “if not from my love’s breath”, we can see the sonnet the
words are from. These are the main things we can do but there are more.
You can use what we call a reference corpus to compare the results from your corpus with a
bigger one. In this case, we will use Shakespeare’s complete works -minus the sonnets. That
way, we can see which words are more common in the sonnets corpus compared to the
bigger one. Click on “Add files”. Select, in this case: “Shakespeare_no_sonnets” and click on
Load. Then “Apply”.
Below you can see the word list for the sonnet corpus and the keyword list. One thing
stands out, at first glance: the second person singular pronouns, determiners: thou, thee,
they, thine1. This shows that the sonnets are directed at a person or persons. The keywords
might be worth looking at more closely. For example, “muse”.

Word list (with and without function words) – Sonnet corpus

Keyword list (Ref. corpus: Shakespeare_no_sonnets)

1
If you save the output and search for “you”, you won’t find it. The word “thou” is much more common in all
of Shakespeare’s work than “you” and especially in the sonnets. Why?
Activity. To do be able to answer the AntConc quiz in AV, you have to
(To be counted for the portfolio you MUST answer these questions in AulaVirtual)
1. Upload the sonnets to AntConc
2. Perform a word list search without a stop list.
3. Perform a collocation search when necessary
4. Upload the reference corpus to do questions 8, 9 and 10.

1. The word “love” is the first lexical word in the list. What is the second? a) beauty b)
self c) Muse d) heart
2. Does the word “art” tell us more about a) the language of the time or b) the
language of Shakespeare?
3. Use the concordance feature. Enter “art” as the search term. How many meanings
does “art” have? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3
4. Which of the following collocates more frequently with “art”: a) their b) thou c)
man’s d) such
5. Do a collocation search for “muse”. Does it have a stronger connection with a) the
second person b) the third person?
6. Do an N-gram search. (N-gram size: Min. 4 – Max 4; Min. Freq. 3. Min. Range 1).
What is the first N-gram? a) when i have seen b) fair kind and true c) for i have sworn
d) my self i ll
7. Search for collocations of “mine”. Is it used as a) a pronoun b) a determiner c) both
d) neither
8. How many of the first 10 keywords are function words: a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
9. Which of the first ten words in the keyword list always collocates with the infinitive
of the verb. a) thy b) doth c) self d) my
10. Which word in the first ten words in the keyword list does “beauty” collocate with?
A) love b) thy c) love d) doth

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