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Concordance

Definition

Concordance is a listing of keyword in context (KWIC). It also can define as a list or words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts. So, a tool or a program that help to list words in context or analysis text called CONCORDANCER. This tool is designed for anyone who need to study text closely or analyze language in depth.

Functions

• make indexes and word lists
• count word frequencies
• compare different usages of a word
• analyse keywords
• find phrases and idioms

http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/

This website is one of tool that use as a concordancer. I just need to type a word from any  corpus that been given, and the website will automatically searching the word from corpus that already been choose. For example I search for the word ‘lie’ in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy corpus and I found 24 instances of the word.

Beside that, below are the other website that could use as a concordancer:

http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html